Coping Skills
Feb. 26th, 2021 03:32 pmAs one of my new year's goals, I decided to work on my Emotional Awareness and my ability to handle/recognize them in myself, as well as some general all-purpose self-improvement. Since this is a HUUUUUUGE category, and I feel I have a lot to work on, January's goal was to make a plan for the year, choosing one topic to work on a month and writing down a few easy first steps for improving the chosen skill. It was tricky prioritizing them, since I think they are all important, but I know better than to try to work on everything at once, so I did the best I could. I'm also not sure I have the best steps in place for improving them, so if anyone has pointers, those would be much appreciated.
( Yearly Emotional Awareness Plan )
February's goal was coping skills and the first thing I did was make a hard copy of this list of 99 Coping Skills that I got courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ysabetwordsmith. Not all of them are necessarily things that will work for me, but it gave me a good starting point and some new ideas too. Once I had the list, I crossed off any definite nos (not that there were many) and then I grouped things by functional group, to help distinguish which skills might help with what problems. (This link is not the exact one from ysabetwordsmith because I was having a hard time finding the original comment, but the graphic IS exactly the same, with an additional page for writing down your own skills.)
When breaking things into categories, I tried to write down five to ten coping skills I already had in that group and came up with a surprising number, though I have more in some categories than others. I then tried to write down at least three new coping skills to try for each category, or enough to get me as close to ten skills per category as possible, which worked fairly well.
I also organized the coping skills by the five senses (again, link courtesy ofysabetwordsmith). This was a little trickier for me to do, as I don't have a lot of skills to split by the senses, and the main list I used didn't either, but it was a neat way to think of things, and reminded me of options like making a tea and finding things that smell nice. And on re-reading the senses graphic, I may need to stick some of those coping skills on my list too (I don't think I did that yet).
Finally, I started to make a list of what coping skills might help me cope with different emotions. I listed angry, frustrated, overwhelmed, and sad. I need to add anxious and possibly boredom, but I'm wondering if I missed any other emotions. When do you use coping skills? What kinds of things do you use? Are there any major emotions I missed?
( Yearly Emotional Awareness Plan )
February's goal was coping skills and the first thing I did was make a hard copy of this list of 99 Coping Skills that I got courtesy of
ysabetwordsmith. Not all of them are necessarily things that will work for me, but it gave me a good starting point and some new ideas too. Once I had the list, I crossed off any definite nos (not that there were many) and then I grouped things by functional group, to help distinguish which skills might help with what problems. (This link is not the exact one from ysabetwordsmith because I was having a hard time finding the original comment, but the graphic IS exactly the same, with an additional page for writing down your own skills.)When breaking things into categories, I tried to write down five to ten coping skills I already had in that group and came up with a surprising number, though I have more in some categories than others. I then tried to write down at least three new coping skills to try for each category, or enough to get me as close to ten skills per category as possible, which worked fairly well.
I also organized the coping skills by the five senses (again, link courtesy of
ysabetwordsmith). This was a little trickier for me to do, as I don't have a lot of skills to split by the senses, and the main list I used didn't either, but it was a neat way to think of things, and reminded me of options like making a tea and finding things that smell nice. And on re-reading the senses graphic, I may need to stick some of those coping skills on my list too (I don't think I did that yet).Finally, I started to make a list of what coping skills might help me cope with different emotions. I listed angry, frustrated, overwhelmed, and sad. I need to add anxious and possibly boredom, but I'm wondering if I missed any other emotions. When do you use coping skills? What kinds of things do you use? Are there any major emotions I missed?
