Resilience & Coping Strategies
This category highlights approaches and tools that strengthen an individual's ability to navigate adversity. It emphasizes the importance of building resilience through supportive relationships, active skill-building, and self-care practices.
Coping Strategies and Tools
When you are experiencing intense or painful feelings or a distressing situation, practicing strategies that divert your attention or help you feel more grounded can be helpful. By distracting yourself, or focusing your attention elsewhere, with the intention of going back later to face the problem that is causing the distress, you are giving yourself time and space to become more emotionally regulated. In turn, you will be in a safer, better position to skillfully address the problem.
There are many different strategies and tools. It may take time and some experimenting to figure out which ones work best for you.
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Supportive Relationships and Active Skill Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience
From the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.
Harvard University
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Creating Your Own Adjustable Self-Care Toolkit - Foundry BC
Sometimes, engaging in self-care might feel like it’s just too hard. An adjustable self-care toolkit can allow us to be kinder to ourselves and give us the compassion we need on those hard days.
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PARticipating in your mental health care
Designed to help young people find and access mental health and addiction services and support best suited for them.
This toolkit includes a variety of information, reflective activities, and worksheets that can be personalized to support young people as unique, active participants along their mental health or addiction care journey.