Distracting Skills

Do you know that real anxious feeling you get sometimes and you aren’t sure exactly what to do? Check out some of these distracting skills to get you through those times!

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The program shares practical tips to help us:

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Be Mindful

Be centered in this very moment

Be more effective in our relationships

Balance your wants and needs with the others in your family and be sure to ask others for what you need

Regulate emotions

Put emotions in perspective

Tolerate distress

Cope with the things you cannot change

Accept reality as it is

Completely and totally accept the situation as it is, acknowledging that your feelings about it are what they are