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My Emotional First Aid Box
When we hurt ourselves physically we reach for the first aid box, but can you imagine if we could create a first aid box for our emotions? The 'Emotional First Aid Box' resource provides an interactive way to explore the different self-care coping strategies we can use to help us manage our emotions.
What are the benefits of using this resource?
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Coping strategies are anything we do to consciously make the effort to help improve and manage difficult experiences, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Coping strategies help us to make improvements to our lives, establish and maintain boundaries, calm and relax ourselves, improve our health and wellbeing, and focus on making plans and setting goals.
Its Good To Talk!!!
If you are struggling with your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and/or difficult experiences, we recommend that you talk to one of the trusted people in your life, and seek professional help and support. Sharing our experiences can be empowering, as it can help us to take back control of our lives by allowing us to identify and manage our difficulties, and take positive and proactive steps to overcome these. However, we can sometimes find it hard to talk about our difficulties and how we feel; in such cases, writing these down can feel easier and less painful and can serve as a great method of communicating when words are too difficult to speak. If you are struggling to talk, we encourage you to use written word or this resource to share what has happened to you and how you are feeling.
