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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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