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If you're interested in working with youth or young adults as a peer support specialist, I highly recommend taking this course to get your foot in the door. Not only can you use these skills in your professional life, but you can easily translate the principles used to help you show up better in your personal relationships as well. To learn more, check out youthera.org/trainings/

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Stay strong guys, we all have those days where we don’t know how to cope but hopefully these will help you instead of hurting yourself. ❤❤❤

Need to express pain and intense emotions

Paint, draw, or scribble on a big piece of paper with red ink or paint

Express your feelings in a journal

Compose a poem or song to say what you feel

Play an instrument with songs that express your emotions then

Write down any negative feelings and then rip the paper up

Listen to music that expresses what you’re feeling

If you need to calm and soothe yourself

Take a bath or hot shower

Pet or cuddle with a dog or cat

Wrap yourself in a warm blanket

Massage your neck, hands, and feet

Listen to calming music

Color in a coloring book

Plant flowers

If you feel disconnected and numb

Call a friend (you don’t have to talk about self-harm)

Take a cold shower

Hold an ice cube in the crook of your arm or leg

Chew something with a very strong taste, like chili peppers, peppermint, or a grapefruit peel.

Go online to a self-help website, chat room, or message board

If you need to release tension or vent anger

Exercise vigorously—run, dance, jump rope, or hit a punching bag

Punch a cushion or mattress or scream into your pillow

Squeeze a stress ball or squish Play-Doh or clay

Rip something up (sheets of paper, a magazine)

Make some noise (play an instrument, bang on pots and pans)

Buy cheap dishes or jars at the dollar store and smash them (safely)

Substitutes for the cutting sensation

Use a red felt tip pen to mark where you might usually cut

Rub ice across your skin where you might usually cut

Put hair elastics (not rubber bands) on wrists, arms, or legs and snap them instead of cutting or hitting

Cut an apple with your blades, scissors, knife, etc

Cut cardboard

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thinking that what happened “wasn’t bad enough” is a sign that it was.

your brain wouldn’t be trying to protect itself from the reality of what happened if what happened didn’t hurt you.

questioning if your trauma “counts” as trauma is a sign of trauma.

If beauty is determined by the eye of the beholder, and you feel like you're ugly or otherwise less than because of your appearance, perhaps it's time for some new lenses.

Shifting the way we see ourselves isn't an instant fix, nor should it be. Slowly treating ourselves like the love of our lives and worthy of our own respect, building trust with ourselves we maybe never had before... A journey to open our eyes to seeing the beauty that's been there all along. It's a journey with many lessons and qualms, and some pleasant surprises too. A journey that welcomes the loving support of those around us to uplift our beings and affirm our worthiness until we can get there ourselves.

Change your lens. Change your patterns. Change your world. You are worth this.

#self love #positivity #self acceptance #positive thoughts #good vibes #ana #mia #body image #depression #ed #ed recovery

velvetmysoul

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If you’re reading this please be nice to yourself today because you do matter

thoradvice

if you've ever continued on living when it seemed impossible, i'm so proud of you. you're so strong for being here despite it all. if you're in that place right now, keep going. you can survive this. i believe in you.