INFORMATION and RESOURCES
Anxiety Canada works to reduce the barrier of anxiety so we can live the life you want. We offer trusted resources and programs to help people better understand and manage anxiety.
It's completely reasonable that almost everyone is experiencing a heightened level of anxiety durning this time. It's sometimes difficult though to recognize and express feelings and worries. This poster highlights different ways these emotions may be showing up for your child. If so, it may be helpful to shift perspective and talk about what is behind the behaviour rather than seeing only the behaviour.
Everyone experiences varying levels of anxiety. It's natures way of keeping us safe. Anxiety also helps us to grow and develop such as feeling the drive to study for a test because you want to do well. Anxiety becomes a problem though, when thoughts and senses are alerted and our bodies respond when there is no danger or reason to be anxious. It is also troublesome when individuals have not had the opportunity to develop coping and strategies to sooth anxiety
These Apps and others can be very helpful for developing awareness about anxiety as well as strategies that will allow us to take back control.