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This page provides strategies & activities geared at helping us to unwind, relax, remain calm and cope. It is important to practice self care!
This page provides strategies & activities geared at helping us to unwind, relax, remain calm and cope. It is important to practice self care!
Tips for Stress Reduction:
Tips for Stress Reduction:
- Do things that make you feel good (read a book, facetime with a friend, draw or color)
- Exercise regularly (get moving!)
- Spend time outdoors (take a walk or a hike, ride your bike)
- Spend time with family and/or friends
- Spend time with your pets
- Create a musical playlist and listen to it
- Clean up or organize a space that is disorderly
- Meditate
- Squeeze a stress ball
- Practice yoga
- Disconnect from technology
- Journal
- Sit in the sunshine (wear your sunscreen!)
- Do something nice for someone else
- Watch your favorite movie or TV show
- Practice breathing techniques
Calm Yourself Down with 'Take 5 Breathing'
Calm Yourself Down with 'Take 5 Breathing'
1. Stretch out your hand until it looks like a star.
2. Get your pointer finger, on your opposite hand, ready to trace each finger up and down.
3. Slide up each side of your finger slowly, down the other side of your finger slowly.
4. Breathe in through your nose on your way up, out through your mouth on the way down.
5.Keep going, breathing in and out, until you have traced your entire hand.
Daily Affirmations
Daily Affirmations
Tell yourself at least one of these each day
Tell yourself at least one of these each day
I am safe I am appreciated
Everything will get done I am intelligent
My friends like me for who I am My feelings matter
I am funny I am loved
I am a good friend I am grateful for my loved ones
I am grateful for my home I like me
My thoughts matter I deserve to be loved every day
I am smart I have time to do the things I love
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