Happiness
Create a First Aid Kit/ Coping Skills Box
Create a First Aid Kit/ Coping Skills Box
During times of distress it can be difficult to think rationally and what you place in this box/tool kit will help refocus you and serve as a reminder to use healthy skills when you or anyone else in your family is feeling overwhelmed or stressed.
During times of distress it can be difficult to think rationally and what you place in this box/tool kit will help refocus you and serve as a reminder to use healthy skills when you or anyone else in your family is feeling overwhelmed or stressed.
What do you include in a kit/box such as this:
What do you include in a kit/box such as this:
Well you focus on your 5 senses and think of those things which help those 5 senses bring you to a good place, a calm place, a happy place….giving you enough time to interrupt those negative thoughts/feelings to then allow you to refocus your thinking and energy and set you on a better more positive path.
Well you focus on your 5 senses and think of those things which help those 5 senses bring you to a good place, a calm place, a happy place….giving you enough time to interrupt those negative thoughts/feelings to then allow you to refocus your thinking and energy and set you on a better more positive path.
For example: Sense of touch (silly putty) Sense of Smell (for me it would be a coconut scented candle) Sense of Sight (picture of your favorite person, place, pet) Sense of Hearing (favorite song, sound) Sense of taste (for me it’s chocolate)
For example: Sense of touch (silly putty) Sense of Smell (for me it would be a coconut scented candle) Sense of Sight (picture of your favorite person, place, pet) Sense of Hearing (favorite song, sound) Sense of taste (for me it’s chocolate)
Whatever these things are for you, they should be things that bring you joy.
Whatever these things are for you, they should be things that bring you joy.