Physical Skills
Watching your favorite TV show or YouTube channel can be an example of this skill.
What is distraction coping skill?
This involves slowly breathing in through your nose, holding it, and exhaling through your mouth.
What is deep breathing?
This game involves fitting shapes together and can help focus your mind.
What is Tetris?
Watching a video of these tiny animals can instantly lighten your mood.
What is venting or talking it out?
Deep breathing using a pinwheel.
What is a calming skill?
Squeezing this small object can help release tension in your hands
What is a stress ball?
Listening to a playlist of these types of sounds, like rain or waves, is relaxing.
What are white noise or nature sounds?
Reading or watching a story can take your mind off stress.
What is a distracting skill?
Writing down your thoughts and feelings without worrying about grammar.
What is journaling?
Writing a story
What is a distraction skill?
This creative activity uses materials like crayons, paint, or clay to focus your mind elsewhere.
What is art?
Writing down 3 things you’re grateful for each day is known as this.
What is a gratitude practice?
A physical object, like a spinner or cube, used to keep your hands busy
What is a fidget toy?
Playing a game with someone.
What is a social coping skill.
What are the colors of the rainbow?
Reading this type of book, such as fantasy or adventure, can help take your mind off stress.
What is Fiction?
This calming activity involves focusing on a single word or sound to relax your mind letting them go down stream.
What is leaves on a stream?
Drawing random designs on paper to create patterns is known as this.
What is doodling?
When you have strong feelings or thoughts.
What is needing coping skills?
Lives in a pineapple under the sea.
Who is spongebob?
Holding your hands under cold water engages this bodily response to reduce stress.
What is the dive reflex?
A calming sensory experience that involves touching soft or textured objects, like a blanket.
What is a tactile relaxation technique?
A random act of kindness
What is a distraction skill?
Talking to a professional about your feelings.
What is a therapist?
A classic calming activity that combines mindfulness and creativity.
What is coloring?