Mental Health Support

As long as it feels comfortable, place your hands on your belly and let your belly breathe. See if you can extend your exhalations to be longer than your inhalations. Again, only if that is comfortable.

Walks in nature I find grounding. Onetime a spoonful of peanut butter deflated my anxiety. It’s like all my thoughts were slowed by the “glue” in my mouth.

Other physical things: try rubbing your knees. Some can find this pretty soothing. Also, sometimes pulling the skin on your forehead gently down can help soothe the nerves.

Some of those can be fairly subtle. If I feel like I need bigger movements I do a Qi Gong movement where I pretend there are two bells above my head, one to each side, and ring the bells with the palm of my hands, moving from side to side. It’s almost like you are intermittently “high fiving” someone to each side of you.

And always remember that you are awesome.