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Rewiring Your Brain for Stress ResilienceAn ABA Webinar with Jennifer Riggs, JD, CNTC
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Moderator:
Alessandra Fritz, J.D. Candidate, Class of 2020 | University of California, Irvine School of Law
ABA Law Student Division Mental Health Coordinator
Speaker:
Jennifer Riggs, J.D. and Certified Neuroscience Coach, Riggs Coaching
A Roadmap 1. Stress in the law2. Neuroscience3. Strategies4. Exercise5. Brain tips
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Stress in the Law
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You can rewire your brain to be more resilient
Neuroplasticity
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• Helps regulate attention, behavior, emotion, and memory• Critical to decision making, goal direction, planning, impulse
control, empathy, understanding self and others
• Reacts quickly to keep us safe• Used in fight-flight response
The Brain’s Stress Response
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Un-Strategy #1
PANIC
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Un-Strategy #2
SUPPRESSION
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AwarenessFocus & Attention in the present moment
Prefrontal Cortex
Amygdala
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The 3 A’s of Awareness
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AWARENESS
ARTICULATION
ACCEPTANCE
Practicing Awareness
top‐down
bottom‐up
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More Brain Tips
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Sleep, Diet, Exercise