Understanding the Importance of Coping Skills…..
By Kisha Summers, MA, LCAS, LCMHC
What is a Coping ?
Coping means to invest one’s own conscious effort, to solve personal and interpersonal problems, in order to try to master, minimize or tolerate stress and conflict.
What are the Five Top Coping skills… #1
- Asking for Help……
- Resources in the Community could include:
- On Campus Counseling Center,
- Atrium-Behavioral Health Center- 704-444-2400
- Mecklenburg County Mobile Crisis-704-566-3410
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255
- LGBTQ National Hotline 1-800-843-4564
What are the Five Top Coping skills… #2
- Meditation
- Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state.
- Deep Breathing
- Visualization
- Guided Meditation Practices,
- Using meditation apps like headspace
- Focusing on the moment through sound
- The final Key is to Find the type of meditation that works for you…..
What are the Five Top Coping skills… #3 Journaling and Drawing
- Someone once said a life unexamined is a life unlived… Which was take on the Socrates’s quote “An unexamined life is not worth living”
What are the Five Top Coping skills… #4
- Listening to Music/Dancing
What are the Five Top Coping skills… #5
- Reframe your thinking….
- Challenging your perspective on the situation or person
- Look at facts versus fiction
- Being willing to accept the reality of the situation
- Always being your biggest advocate
