Creative Coping Skills
This coping skill is a creative outlet and a physical exercise.
This coping skill involves lifting the knees and swinging your arms from side to side, yet remaining in one spot.
Walking in Place
If we think about our stress as being held in a bucket (a bucket of stress), the more stress we experience, the more our bucket gets filled. If we use _______, we can empty some of the stress bucket.
Healthy Coping Skills
This coping skill involves sitting quietly and bringing your attention to the present moment by noticing your breathing.
Meditation
This coping skill can help distract us from our emotions and can help keep our minds active.
Puzzles
Name two benefits of using coloring as a coping skill.
Mindfulness (helps us focus and stay in the moment), stress relief (calms the brain and helps the body relax), and creativity (helps us express ourselves and use our imagination)
This coping skill involves a series of poses that can be done from a seated position, or while standing.
Yoga
These contain a list of different coping skills that you can use in daily life. They are usually notecard size so that they are easier to access.
Coping Cards
This coping skill involves imagining a place that's calming to you.
Imagery
When using this coping skill, you make sure that you're getting proper nutrition and vitamins.
Healthy Eating
This coping skill is an art form that uses written, spoken, or sung language.
Poetry
Name three benefits of physical exercise.
Helps relieve stress (by releasing endorphins), improves sleep, increases energy level, burns calories, improves heart health, increases flexibility, helps you focus, builds muscle strength
This coping skill involves statements that remind us of our strengths.
Positive Affirmations
This coping skill involves being fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
Mindfulness
Name two types of puzzles that you can use to cope.
Word searches, mazes, crossword puzzles, dot-to-dots, brain teasers, sudoku
Name two coping skills that incorporate writing.
Poetry, creative writing, journaling, letter writing, gratitude lists
This coping skill is a whole body exercise that combines cardio and dancing.
Zumba
This coping skill involves writing down the different things that we are thankful for.
Gratitude Journaling
This coping skill involves tensing and releasing different muscle groups in the body and noticing how our muscles feel when they are relaxed.
This coping skill can include getting enough sleep, healthy eating, brushing our teeth, drinking enough water, etc.
Self-care
This coping skill can help you process and reflect on your emotions and experiences. It can also help you feel different from your current mood.
Music
This coping skill involves a set of movements, in a gentle, graceful, and focused manner along with deep breathing.
Tai Chi
This is something that depicts the relationships between different emotions in the form of a colorful spectrum. It can help us put words to emotions and care for our mental health.
Feelings Wheel
Name four benefits of mindfulness.
Mindfulness can relieve stress, reduce anxiety and depression, improve your mood and happiness, boost concentration and focus, and improve sleep.
Name three ways of building social support.
Put time into the relationships you have. Get involved in your community. Go to support group meetings. Talk to your doctor, therapist, social worker. Reach out to people you know.