Changes in our lives cause us to adapt, grow, think and do things differently. Even if these changes are positive, they are still stressful.
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Below you will find a listing of helpful resources that we believe will guide you, and provide some helpful information to you about a variety of different things, including helpful articles, links to apps, and anything else we can find that we feel might benefit you during this time.
Your mind is a powerful tool in the battle against anxiety. This brief video helps us understand the power of our thoughts.
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware of what is going on in and around you, and learning to change your reaction to those things. Essentially not letting the external control the internal. Watch this short video for more insight.
Self-care is an often overused term to describe how we care for ourselves, pretty self-explanatory right? Sometimes, but often we tend to confuse self-care with distraction. The best way that I found to describe this difference, is to compare our inner selves to our bedroom. If, inevitably, our room becomes messy, we tend to get stressed out. No one likes living in a messy environment. We could feel that stress of a dirty room, and say…watch Netflix or something. We might be distracted from the mess because we are watching a great show on Netflix (Great British Baking Show anyone??), but afterwards the mess is still there…and what’s worse is we often times feel more stressed, and beat ourselves up for not cleaning up the mess in the first place.
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Self-care…is cleaning up the mess. Self-care becomes doing the things that help to remove the stress from our lives, and recharge ourselves. Another way to tell the difference between self-care and distraction, is after distracting we tend to feel the same or worse, after we engage in self-care we tend to feel better and more energized.
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It has always been difficult to find the things that charge our batteries, to find the things that fall under our umbrella’s of self-care. The main ones that everyone needs are: eating regularly, getting some physical activity, and sleeping. Those are the big three, whatever else that might fall under our umbrella could be unique to ourselves.
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The challenge is to find those things! I challenge each of you who is reading this article, to find at least 3-5 things that you can do on a regular basis that charge your battery. Things perhaps that you have neglected doing, or perhaps even things that you always wanted to do but never had the opportunity to do.
Below you will find connection to different resources that we feel would be beneficial to you during this time. Like most things in this Canvas course, we will continue to update it as we discover new things that we want to pass along to you all. As always we here in the Counseling Center are here to serve you. If you need an appointment with one of our therapists do not hesitate to make an appointment by contacting Debbie.Poss@thehills.org or call 817.581.3329.
Stress can have many potent effects on our overall well-being. This brief video helps us understand the powerful nature of stress.
Emotional resilience is a crucial skill equipping ourselves to handle what life throws at us. Understanding and implementing this skill helps us to prevent the external from effecting our internal, preventing what is happening outside of ourselves from changing how we feel.
Below you will find some helpful guided meditations and guided Yoga sessions.
Yoga Nidra – Veteran’s Yoga Project Recording:
Yoga Nidra – for blissful sleep and daily calm:
