Coping Skills for Anxiety
For 5 to 10 minutes, use all your senses to imagine this setting in great detail.
The Coping Skills: Anxiety worksheet describes four strategies for reducing anxiety. Strategies include deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, imagery, and challenging irrational thoughts. These coping strategies can help you deal with anxiety when it arises, as well as contributing to long-term anxiety relief.
This worksheet includes a brief description and instructions on how to perform each skill. After these skills are taught in this session, we encourage you to practice at home. The more you practice, the easier and more effective the skills will become.
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” —Betty Smith
Coping Skills Anxiety <- - download worksheet
We suggest you use this worksheet as a tool to practice the techniques to cope with anxiety.