TIPs: The Brain & Change > Coping Skills
Developing healthy coping skills is an important part of your mental health. Healthy coping skills help us deal with the challenges of life's changes. Unhealthy coping skills can lead to mental health crises and addictions. Read our self-help tips today and learn how you can develop healthy coping skills and help your loved ones develop theirs.
First Responders face a unique set of mental health challenges that the lay person may not be aware of. This tip explores those challenges that first responders face, how first responders tend to compensate continue reading
If you’re someone who lives with depression, you might find that caring for your basic needs can become very difficult during your depressive episodes. Essential and routine tasks like eating, bathing, and getting dressed continue reading
You’re getting ready to give a big speech and you feel your heart start to race. You’re driving down the road continue reading
Explore Ways To Create A Sensory Friendly Tool For Comfort
Carry a familiar item that is sensory-friendly & comforting It is impossible to avoid all sensory triggering stimuli around you. If you feel you may continue reading
Introduction
We often wait until we are overwhelmed or emotionally dysregulated to try and find something to help us cope. Coming up with a new coping strategy when we’re already in a continue reading
What Is Self Care?
Your body is like a vehicle. We all have an engine that allows us to be functional, achieve our goals, and create masterpieces; everything we do in life can either create continue reading
Since coronavirus began its spread in the US, social distancing measures and stay-at-home orders have been implemented across the country in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. This has been an extremely continue reading
A Self Soothing Exercise: Self-soothing is the ability to care for yourself emotionally in times of distress or discomfort. Self-soothing is the process of acknowledging how you’re feeling and dealing with it head on, and continue reading
It doesn’t matter who you are or how many luxuries you have; every person is going to experience hardships in their life. These are the moments where life feels especially difficult, and they often continue reading
Considering the fast pace of our world, it is not surprising that we may engage in reactive responses or employ knee-jerk decisions. However, if we can find a way to gently disconnect from the noise continue reading
For some the holiday time can be an exciting time of year filled with great food, loved ones, and traditions. For others, it can bring feelings of anxiety, loneliness, frustration, and fear. Not everyone has continue reading
Have you been in a conversation or a situation where someone has said something that’s triggered you to react? Maybe you’ve become angry, or frustrated, or sad? And once you feel this emotion, you say continue reading
Do you find yourself stuck in the past, ruminating over previous conversations or interactions? Or maybe you’re focused on the future, stressing about what could happen or how your future could be affected by your continue reading
Are you stuck on the negatives in your life? Maybe you’re at a job that you don’t like, or you’re in an apartment rather than in the home of your dreams, or maybe you just continue reading
Feeling Lonely: One day you are sitting alone after a long day and it hits you: you are feeling lonely. Whether you moved to a new city, had a falling out with a friend, or continue reading
