Exploration of Self:

Journaling: Keep a journal to track your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
Self-Reflection: Use techniques that promote introspection, such as guided imagery or mindfulness exercises. Instagram and tiktok will have some easy to follow ideas.

Stress Management: Consider relaxation techniques like deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, or guided meditation. Is my diaphragm moving? Am I sleeping at least 6.5 hours? How is my appetite? What is my hydration level?
Consider your transitions between tasks. How can you improve them? How can we maintain a regulated state? Can I regulate my heart rate?

Assertiveness Training: Expressing your needs and feelings in a healthy, assertive manner. Recognizing what relationships you feel safe asserting yourself in. Other’s where the goal is to assert yourself with no consequences or without overwhelming emotion.
Active Listening: Practice active listening with empathy…allowing your imagination to create scenarios from what someone shares with you is unique. then to guess what comes next in their story… Relax and listen. even if you guessed correctly

Emotion Identification: identify and label your emotions accurately. Befriend an emotions wheel or mood chart.
Regulation Techniques: focusing on reducing heart rate and inducing parasympathetic response.

Interpersonal Skills: Intentionally building and maintaining healthy relationships, such as empathy, respect, and effective communication. Feeling safe to assert yourself without consequences.
Boundary Setting: Establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries with others.

Self-Care Practices: Encourage regular self-care activities that nurture physical, emotional, and mental well-being.
Positive Self-Talk: Consistently develop a more compassionate and positive inner dialogue.

Action Plans: Create actionable steps towards achieving their goals.
- Unique to every one of us…this will take a lot of exploration to identify, followed by motivation.

Resilience/Flexibility Training: incorporate skills that enhance resilience, such as adaptability, reality testing, and stress management.
Support Systems: Continue to build and rely on supportive relationships and networks.

Mindfulness Practices: Introduce mindfulness exercises like mindful breathing, body scans, or mindful eating.
Present Moment Awareness: Focus on the present moment rather than ruminating on the past or worrying about the future.

Affirmations: Encourage the use of positive affirmations to build self-esteem.
Recognizing Achievements: Recognize and celebrate your accomplishments and strengths.

Understanding Mental Health: Explore education on mental health conditions, symptoms, and treatments.

Behavioral Activation: Engage in activities that bring joy and fulfillment. Exploring things that bring pleasure in various forms!
Habit Formation: Consider forming and maintaining healthy habits. It does take time & effort to create habits.

Values Clarification: Identify core values and align actions with those values.
Purpose and Meaning: Ability to conceptualize individual beliefs.