Coping Skill: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding Technique
It's easy to feel anxiety and stress, especially with everything going on in the world today. This video demonstrates the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Grounding Technique to help you work through your stress and anxiety. This proven method will help calm your mind and bring your focus back to the present.
Using Your Senses to Calm Down: The 5-4-3-2-1
Here, Professor Puppet explains how to use your senses to help you feel better when you're anxious, sad, or upset.
A to Z of coping strategies
The Hampshire CAMHS ‘A to Z of coping strategies’ includes 26 ideas, strategies and techniques to help a young person to cope better if they are experiencing stresses and pressures which are making them feel in crisis or at risk of self-harming.
Learn To Bring Down Stress
This exercise teaches how to gain control of your stressful energy when it becomes to hard to handle.
Coping Skill for Middle School and High School Kids: Taking Deep Breaths
Deep breathing is a coping strategy that can be used at any time to reduce stress, improve focus, and recharge the body and mind. This video teaches you how to practice deep breathing, a coping skill you can use anywhere.
How We Cope With Anxiety & Stress | MTV's Teen Code
This one goes out to all those teens who can’t get out of bed no matter how hard they try, who have gone three days without seeing anyone (or even brushing their hair). You’re not alone, and our teen experts (and a few twentysomethings) can prove it. Follow along as they deliver the Teen Code guide to coping with Mental Health.
Positive Self-Talk
Our internal dialogues, or “self-talk,” can shape our beliefs and influence our emotions and behavior, and provides assurance and motivation. Positive self-talk is a healthy way to cope with anxiety.
How to Defeat Negative Thinking: An Animation
Negative thinking can get the best of us at the worst of times. But there's hope! Positive psychology Coach Derrick Carpenter reveals two key tactics that will intercept and defeat these thoughts before they have a chance to infiltrate your life.
Melting Exercise - Learn To Destress
Practice melting away that icky frozen feeling you get when you're scared, frustrated, or angry.
25 Amazing COPING SKILLS Everyone Needs
I'm Kati Morton, a licensed therapist making Mental Health videos!
You are not your thoughts
This video explains some of the things you can try when you feel overwhelmed by your thoughts. After the video, take a few moments to observe your thoughts with curiosity, paying attention to how each one makes you feel. Paying attention to your thoughts and sorting through them takes practice and patience.
How to Turn off the Fight/Flight/Freeze Response: Anxiety Skills #4
When the fight/flight/freeze response kicks in, the thinking part of your brain shuts down. Trying to force yourself to calm down rarely works. That's because your brain is meant to default to ancient survival responses like the fight/flight/freeze response.
Grounding Exercise: Anxiety Skills #5
This simple activity can help you feel calm by giving you a practical way to use your five senses to remind your brain that you are actually safe.
The Butterfly Hug
The Butterfly Hug is a form of bilateral stimulation that can be used as a grounding technique.The process is simple and can be done in any situation. It can help bring you back to the present moment and calm your emotional state.
Kobe Bryant - The Power of Sleep & Meditation
Here, Bryant, who felt strongly that well-being is critical for peak performance, shares how prioritizing sleep and meditation benefited his game.
