Practical
Life runs smoothly when there is a place for everything and everything's in its place.
What is cleaning your room?
This can be a regulation tool for building positive emotions - just don't let it distract you so you neglect everything else.
What is doing things you enjoy?
Connecting with people who fill your cup - especially when you want to isolate.
What is quality time with friends and family?
Praying, attending services and holidays, doing acts that reflect your faith and beliefs.
What is practicing religion?
A phrase you might use to describe someone who pursues new ideas throughout their life - not just in school.
What is lifelong learner?
Writing down to-do lists, deadlines, appointments, brain dumps, grocery lists, and more!
What is keeping a schedule/planner?
If you say positive things to yourself enough times, you start to believe them.
What is positive self-talk/affirmations?
Unfortunately it is necessary to touch grass.
What is going outside?
Regular acts of mindfulness, sometimes about a particular topic, but sometimes just watching your thoughts like a little movie.
What is meditation?
A key skill in school, work, and life. People who do this tend to have their needs met more often and produce better work because of it.
School might not teach you how to, even though it's an essential life skill under capitalism.
What is budgeting?
Venting to a trusted person - a friend, a parent, or even a therapist.
What is talking about your feelings?
What is community activities?
Singing with all the voices of the mountain, painting with all the colors of the wind.
What is connecting with nature?
For example: scrolling for 10 minutes between studying, a mental health day off from school or work, a week-long vacation.
What is taking breaks?
Our brains thrive on predictability - doing things on a regular basis at around the same time help with that.
What is keeping a routine?
Especially when everything feels terrible and out-of-control, the feeling that comes up when thinking about the good.
What is gratitude (or hope)?
For example: "That wasn't ok. Please don't do that anymore. If you do that again, I will leave this conversation."
What is setting boundaries?
Yeah the world might be huge and overwhelming, but I made this thing and so have made some impact upon it.
What is creating art?
Set of skills that help with organizing, planning, prioritizing, and maintaining motivation.
What is time management?
Deciding what you want to change and making a plan to get yourself there (we do it in therapy all the time!).
What is setting goals?
Recognize the emotion, allow the emotion, investigate the emotion with kindness, and don't identify with the emotion.
What is feeling your feelings?
Confrontation doesn't have to be scary when you have these skills to keep calm, take accountability, and solve the problem together.
What is conflict resolution?
These are the things that you decide are important to you, that help you make sense of and prioritize the world and guide your choices.
What are values?
An appropriate amount of time to think ahead when planning for your academic or professional future.
What is five years?