Coping Skills
What Are They?
Ways to manage stress and anxiety properly!
This tab is for students to find tools and strategies for managing their emotions and feelings.....................
Coping skills are things that we can do in-the-moment, when we are feeling lousy, feeling stressed, feeling anxious, or feeling angry. They help us manage our emotions by turning them down and avoid getting overwhelmed. They help us to not go from "0 to 10". Coping skills helps us get through stressful situations with a little more ease, and without doing something we'd regret later on.
Emotional regulation refers to our ability to control our own emotions. We can chose to either control our emotions or let our emotions control us. When we allow our emotions to control us, we tend to feel and act without thinking. When we finally do think we often wish we had acted differently. One way to regulate your emotions is to learn and use self soothing (coping )skills .
CMS Virtual Calming Library
Breathing Exercises
Breathing exercises it a way to help you relax. When you engage in these exercises you make your body feel like it does when you are already relaxed. Deep breathing is one of the best, because when you breathe deeply, it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax.
Click Here for a variety of deep breathing exercises. Try them out and decide which one works best for you.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the process of focusing on the present moment, and away from other thoughts. How we think, and what we think about, can affect how we feel and act. For example, most people tend to feel sad or anxious when you think or worry a lot about upsetting past or future events.
Click Here for a variety of mindfulness exercisess. Try them out and decide which one works best for you.
