Food
Healthy or Unhealthy?
Eating potato chips every day.
UNHEALTHY because eating fatty food increases the fat content in our bodies.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Telling a trusted adult if you feel uncomfortable about a situation or someone else.
HEALTHY
Trying to deal with an uncomfortable situation alone can be difficult, and there is no shame in asking for help.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Listening to, singing or playing an instrument as a coping skill?
HEALTHY
Music is proven to relieve stress and lower emotional responses.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Hitting another individual
UNHEALTHY
Hitting is never okay under any circumstances.
True or false?
Everyone has talents and gifts. Everyone has good qualities.
TRUE
Healthy or unhealthy?
Eating veggies and fruit every day.
HEALTHY because they are full of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to stay healthy.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Smiling at someone.
HEALTHY
Because it's nice.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Writing your thoughts down every day or when you are upset also known as journaling
HEALTHY
Journaling helps to express your feelings, can help to clarify a situation and can show you how much you have grown in how you handle situations.
Healthy or Unhealthy?
Someone is bullying you. You are afraid of what they might do if you tell someone, so you keep taking their bullying.
Unhealthy
Being bullied shouldn't happen to anyone. Having the situation dealt with is better than the bullying continuing.
True or false?
If I apologize to someone, they must accept my apology.
FALSE
No person is obligated to accept an apology. Your apology is for your own emotional health, not the other person's.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Drinking pop/soda/carbonated beverages every day.
UNHEALTHY because of excess sugar, sweeteners, carbonation MAY cause calcium loss in bones, tooth decay and contribute to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Healthy or unhealthy?
Sitting on the couch for hours at a time.
UNHEALTHY
Even if you've exercised earlier in the day, your body needs to move throughout the day to keep your muscles healthy, your joints fluid and your blood pumping. Get up and move around at least once every hour.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Laughter
HEALTHY
Laughing has been proven to lower stress and boost the immune system.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Talking to a counsellor or therapist.
HEALTHY
Counsellors and therapists are trained to handle complex emotions. It is no different than going to a heart doctor for a heart problem.
True or false?
People who don't like to be touched and need lots of personal space are weird.
FALSE
Every person's level of comfort with personal space and touching is different. There is no such thing as one way we should be.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Eating as many fruit and veggie colours and types as possible.
HEALTHY because fruits and vegetables of different colours and types have different quantities of vitamins and minerals.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Washing your hands before you eat, after touching pets, when you come in from being in the community, after blowing your nose and after using the restroom.
HEALTHY
Are there any other times it might be important to wash your hands?
Healthy or unhealthy?
Taking a walk or leaving the room/area when you feel upset.
HEALTHY
Taking a moment to calm yourself and clear your head is a very mature way to handle negative emotions.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Your friends won't let Suzy sit with your group at lunch. Suzy doesn't wear the same clothes as everyone else and she likes a different hockey team, so it's okay.
UNHEALTHY
This is bullying. This would make Suzy feel really badly. What could you say to your friends if they exclude Suzy?
True or False?
Progressive muscle relaxation is a way to first tighten and then loosen muscles in the body in a specific order in order to focus and relax the brain as well as relax the body.
TRUE
Healthy or unhealthy?
Eating more or less than 3 meals a day.
UNHEALTHY.
More can cause excess weight gain and digestive problems. High blood sugar spikes.
Less can cause body systems to function improperly due to lack of nutrition. Brain requires nutrition to run your body just like a car needs gas. Blood sugar can't regulate.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Telling secrets about someone else.
UNHEALTHY
Telling secrets damages trust and damages character.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Holding my feelings in so I don't upset anyone.
UNHEALTHY
Holding feelings in can damage your overall health. Express your feelings in respectful ways.
Healthy or unhealthy?
Your best friend borrows your favourite sweater and tells you it is lost when you ask for it. You see them wearing your favourite sweater at the dance.
UNHEALTHY
Your friend should respect you and your items.
Your friends should not lie to you.
True or false?
The 5-4-3-2-1 coping method is naming 5 things you can see, 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell, one thing you can taste.
TRUE