Positive Coping Skills for Dealing with Stress
- Talk to a friend
- Use positive self-talk/a coping statement
- Increase the time you spend with your close circle of friends and family
- Exercise
- Make lists to minimize the overwhelming feeling that stress produces
- Write in a journal
- Ask for help
- Prepare in advance so you can minimize stress
- Listen to soothing music
- Read a book
- Deal with the stress by confronting it head-on
- Stop and take deep breaths
- Remove yourself from the situation
- Say tehillim
- Speak with a professional (school guidance counselor or therapist)