7 Caring Conversation Starters to Reach Your Child or Teen with Anxiety
As a concerned friend or parent, you may want to reach out but you may not be sure how to begin.
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Creating a Supportive Learning Environment for Your Students
As an educator, you are in a unique position to positively impact the mental health of your students, especially those with anxiety and anxious tendencies.
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Living With Anxiety: Tips for Managing Your Own Anxiety
Everything on this list has the potential to lift your mood and get you back on track.
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Nine Tips for Talking With Kids About Trauma
As much as we might want to, we can’t always protect children from witnessing violence and tragedy in the world, whether it’s mass shootings, terrorist attacks, or war. As parents, teachers, and other supportive adults, what we can do is comfort and communicate with children in the most healing way possible. Read more ›
What Is Toxic Shame?
Toxic shame is a feeling that you’re worthless. It happens when other people treat you poorly and you turn that treatment into a belief about yourself. You’re most vulnerable to this type of poor treatment during childhood or as a teen. When you feel toxic shame, you see yourself as useless or, at best, not as good as others. Read more ›
Handle With Care: Supporting Young People During Crises
The entire community is responsible for protecting and supporting children, especially in times of crisis. In empathizing with families, educators and community members who must respond to the needs of children as a traumatizing event unfolds, Learning for Justice gathered recommendations and resources to help guide conversations with young people and to manage potential subsequent actions and reactions. Read more ›
10 Strategies to Build Your Anxiety Toolkit
Anxiety can wreck your mental and physical health. These tactics will give you short-term relief and long-term strategies to manage it. Read more ›
Digital Anxiety — How Technology and Social Media Makes Us Anxious and What You Can Do About It
Life is unpredictable and anxiety-producing. There’s no doubt that technology and social media have intensified our anxiety, and our lack of in-person connection and interaction, time in nature, and engagement in our communities is creating what some mental health professionals are referring to as “digital anxiety.” Read more ›
The Best Way to Comfort Someone When They’re Sad
When a friend, partner, family member or co-worker is upset, you’ve probably wondered how best to make them feel better. Let them vent? Offer a chocolate bar? Give them space so they can have a good cry? The ideal approach depends on the person and the context, experts say. But a limited yet growing body of research suggests that one of the most powerful ways to soothe a person’s feelings is to start a conversation. Read more ›
The Role Social Media Plays in Mental Health
If you’re spending an excessive amount of time on social media and feelings of sadness, dissatisfaction, frustration, or loneliness are impacting your life, it may be time to re-examine your online habits and find a healthier balance. Read more ›
