Use these guidelines to help you set attainable goals for yourself.
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An Austin, Texas therapist shares how kids and teens can manage anxiety, panic attacks, anger, dissociation, and more using a grounding activity.
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Learn six different ways that running can improve teen’s mental health.
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Rainbow grounding is a fun, effective, and easy-to-remember exercise to help manage big emotions. It’s especially good for younger kids, but really it can help people of all ages! Grounding exercises help you to focus on the present moment when you feel overwhelmed.
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Toxic positivity is when positive thinking becomes a rule rather than an option. It’s when blind positivity is seen as the only acceptable way to approach life and feeling any “negative” emotion is seen as wallowing.
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Box breathing is a great way to reduce anxiety. Breathing exercises work because they calm the nervous system. As with many breathing exercises, you can do it anywhere without needing anything else. Once you get the hang of it, it can be a great everyday tool to prevent anxiety from getting out of hand.
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It’s no secret that pets and animals of all kinds can have an amazing effect on our lives. Making it a point to take regularly scheduled pet breaks can be a great way to ease anxiety.
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Back to school can always be a stressful time, but adding distance learning, social distancing, learning pods, masks, and ever-changing plans from the school district into the mix makes for quite a bit of chaos. Here are five strategies to lessen the back-to-school anxiety for you and your teen or middle schooler.
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