Healthy Coping Skills

  • Practicing meditation & relaxation techniques
  • Finding humor
  • Counting backwards from 100
  • Leaves on a stream: Imagine difficult thoughts/feelings like a leaf on a stream. Just like the leaf that floats down a stream, as time passes the leaf goes out of view, and so does our difficult emotion/though.
  • Fact vs. Opinion: Is my thought a Fact (ex. I missed a test in school.) or an Opinion (ex. I am a failure.) Thoughts that are opinions we can remind ourselves that someone may see it differently or we are being unkind to ourselves.
  • Five Senses: What can I see? Touch? Smell? Taste? Hear?
  • Or pick another healthy coping skill that can bring you an uplifting emotional outcome
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