Self-Soothing

Parents, you are your child’s role model. Be sure to practice your own self-soothing skills and make time to talk to your kids about COVID, when they are ready. Learn how here.

EMBRACE kiddos, we want to know what you learned from our self-soothing video! Use your 5 senses to tell us and your family how you self-soothe. Learn more here.

Checkout our ‘Self-Soothe’ video on Facebook!

In addition, for every SHARE of EMBRACE’s ‘Self-Soothing MindHack’ video on Facebook, we will make a $4.12 donation to the Pittsburgh Foundation’s Emergency Action Fund, where mental health is a key priority, up to $41,200. Find it here, to help us contribute!

Email info@embracepittsburgh.org for contest rules.

MindHacks is a series of short-form family-oriented videos that offer coping skills based from dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT).

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S.T.O.P.

In part two of our MindHacks series, NFL Hall of Fame running back, Jerome Bettis, introduces the STOP Skill. See Video

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

Additional Resources

Coping with stress and anxiety during COVID is really tough, but EMBRACE is here for you! Be sure to check out these additional resources for more support. Remember, there is strength in numbers. But from a distance, for now!

DBT Skills for a Pandemic

EMBRACE Resources

Tips to Team-Up to Cope with COVID

Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook

S.T.O.P. Skill Worksheet

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