Healthy Coping Skills
Meditation, yoga, and listening to sounds around us
What is mindfulness?
When angry, it is possible that you use this unhealthy coping skill
What is physical fighting, destroying items, or yelling?
You can feel this emotion when you feel like you have too much to handle
What is Overwhelmed, Stressed/ Anxious?
A tool that can help you maintain your stress if it's squeezed
What is a Stress Ball?
Coping skills help you get through hard days
True.
Coping skills help you feel calmer, happier, and stronger.
Allowing self to cry, taking a shower, and snuggling with a pet
What are ways of self-soothing?
Running away from our problems, and not wanting to confront them head on
What is Avoidance?
You can feel this emotion when someone argues with you
What is Anger / Sadness / Defensiveness?
This can help to immediately calm your body down
What is Deep Breathing?
People all use the same coping skills
False
Everyone has different coping skills that are helpful to them. What one finds helpful may not be helpful to another.
Take 3 DEEP Breathes!
Take 3 DEEP Breathes!
The act of avoiding and distancing yourself from others
What is isolating?
You might feel this way if you are in a panic
What is Anxiety?
This type of coping skill is good for your body and brain
What is Exercise?
Charlene gets into a fight with her mom. She decides to leave the situation and go for a walk. This is an example of an unhealthy coping skill.
False. This is a HEALTHY Coping Skill.
Going on a walk and leaving the situation is a great way to reduce stress and calm down
A practice of serious thought about one's character, actions, and motives, which allows us to acknowledge what choices were good, which were bad, and how we can improve ourselves.
What is Self-Reflection?
Drinking or doing drugs to escape negative thoughts and feelings
What is self-medicating?
You may feel this way when you are trying to do something and no matter how hard you try, you cannot do it.
What is Frustrated / Discouraged / Hopeless?
Phrases you can say to yourself to help you get through distressing situations
What are positive affirmations or positive self-talk?
Our feelings are permanent and cannot be changed.
FALSE
Feelings are only temporary. They come and go. Coping skills help us work through the difficult feelings
Writing a list of outstanding assignments and determining what to start working on first
What is prioritizing?
The act of delaying or postponing a task or set of tasks. It can prevent you from following through on what you set out to do
What is Procrastination?
You might feel this way if you didn't get enough sleep a few days in a row.
What is Exhausted
This coping skill helps you get your feelings out instead of bottling them up
What is talking to someone?
Coping skills are something everyone is born knowing how to do.
False.
Coping skills are learned throughout our lives.