Personal Strategyz: Coping with Anxiety

The more often you practice strategies, which work for you, the more effective and easier your experiences will become.

When we practice our coping strategies, we are managing our thinking. We do this by focusing on our coping strategy to rebalance our thoughts with “realistic thinking”. This means we look at ourselves, others around us, and the world around us without being overly negative or positive. As with any other skill, the more these strategies are practiced, the quicker they will work and the more effective these strategies will be. 

Your instructor will discuss with you options as you review various situations.

Planning and Practice

Decrease your stress and anxiety by planning for situations ahead.

Things to do with your instructor.

Selecting your strategies.

Have a dialog with your instructor and work through the process of what works for you, as you select Preventative Strategies, Internal Strategies, and External Strategies. Then discuss any other strategies, you may have written down in your personal worksheets, during this course.

Discuss Situations.

Discuss your strategies for various situations, such as:

• School

• Within your community

• Personal Situations

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Fill in your Personal Situations Worksheet

Practice Selecting Your Preventative Strategies

In this exercise, you will grab any of the strategies you want to try out. There is no correct answer, except what works for you. Click here to open the interactive exercise. 

Discuss Additional Options.

There are multiple options and strategies to use as tools attached to your tool belt. It is important that you select the tools which work for you best. Don't pick a strategy because it sounds "cool". Pick what works for you.