Vocab
Skills used to deal with emotion.
Coping strategies
A breathing technique that you can use that involves breathing through your nose and out through your mouth.
Smell the Flowers, Blow out the Candle
The only person you are responsible for.
Yourself
You can feel this emotion when someone argues with you.
Anger
Tool that can help you maintain your stress if you squeeze it.
Stress ball
What we need to learn to cope with.
Feelings/Emotions
A strategy that you can use that involves your muscles.
Muscle tension and release/relax
This could happen if you are not able to manage these negative emotions.
Behave inappropriately
You can feel this emotion when you feel like you have too much do to to handle.
Overwhelmed/Stressed/Anxiety
Tool that you can write in to get out all of your emotions.
Journal
An exercise that you can do that involves reaching away from the center of your body.
Stretching
Something you enjoy doing to pass the time like drawing, sewing, building, etc.
Hobby
While at work, a good place to go when stepping away from the stressful situation where you can be alone.
Restroom
You might feel this way if someone keeps doing something that you don't like them doing.
Annoyed
Tool that you can use to organize what you need to do when you have a lot to do.
To Do List/Checklist
This is another word for positive self talk.
Affirmations
The poses and stretches of this exercise promotes meditation.
Yoga
True or False. People do better with only one coping strategy.
False. People do better with a variety of coping strategies
You may feel this way when you are in a panic.
Anxiety
Something you can use to listen to music privately.
Headphones/ear buds
Phrases you can say to yourself to help you get through a stressful situation.
Mantra/self-talk/affirmations
Strategy that you can use where you close your eyes and picture somewhere or something that relaxes you.
Visualization/Imagery
To face and deal with difficult situations in a successful way
Coping
You may feel this way when you are trying to do something and no matter how hard you try you cannot do it.
Frustrated
Lists that you can use to help make a decision more easily.
Pros and Cons List