Showing posts with label Anxiety. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anxiety. Show all posts

Friday, April 3, 2020

4-Square Breathing

Box breathing, also known as four-square breathing, involves exhaling to a count of four, holding your lungs empty for a four-count, inhaling at the same pace, and holding air in your lungs for a count of four before exhaling and beginning the pattern anew.


Thursday, April 2, 2020

How to Talk with Children About COVID19

Hi again,
Here is a link to a short article by Alan Wolfeldt on how to talk with children about COVID19.

He is an internationally known and respected publisher of multiple books on grief, trauma and working with various ages and specific contexts.

I hope you find this helpful.

k

https://www.centerforloss.com/2020/03/children-about-cornavirus/

(the link isn't active so just copy and paste into your browser)


Wednesday, April 1, 2020

How to Prevent an Anxiety Attack

How to Prevent an Anxiety Attack

Breathe deeply in through your nose and out through your mouth
Slowly look around you and find…
5 things you can see
4 things you can touch
3 things you can hear
2 things you can smell
1 emotion you feel
This is called Grounding – it can help when you feel like you’ve gone too far in your head and lost control of your surroundings.
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