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Anxiety

Unchecked anxiety can disrupt your daily life and sabotage your relationships, productivity, and even physical health. Seeking support early can help mitigate these impacts and empower you to regain control and find some peace amidst life’s challenges.

Information/worksheets

How to Do Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Learn how to relax your muscles through this two-step process from Anxiety Canada.

Identify and Cope with Panic/Anxiety Attacks

Understanding the symptoms, treatments, and coping skills to manage panic/anxiety attacks.

Deep Breathing

Learn the technique of slow, deliberate deep breathing as a tool for managing your body’s stress response.

Anxiety Self-Help

Understand how and why your body responds to perceived danger and learn practical skills for managing feelings, thoughts, and behaviours.

Cycles of Avoidance – The Anxiety Trap

See how thoughts, feelings, and physical symptoms of anxiety can trigger vicious cycles of avoidance, escapism, and lead to worsening of anxiety and avoidant behaviors.

4 Tools to Help Cope with Anxiety

Each of the tools included in this worksheet are more effective with repeated, self-compassionate practice.

Introduction to Anxiety

The exercise of identifying anxiety triggers, thoughts, and physical symptoms can help you feel calmer in the moment while providing insight you can share with a counsellor or other health care professional.

 Coping with an Environmental Emergency

Includes mental health supports and how to talk to kids and teens who have had to temporarily relocate due to fire, flood, earthquake or other environmental threat.

6 Gratitude Exercises for Anxiety

Practicing gratitude helps with anxiety by reducing negative thinking, promoting relaxation, activating positive emotions, and increasing life satisfaction. 

Getting a Good Night’s Sleep

From Anxiety Canada, 15 strategies for supporting sleep hygiene.

Anxiety Self-Help Resources

Info sheets and worksheets on a wide range of topics related to anxiety and stress.

12 Tips for Healthy Living

While practicing a healthy lifestyle won’t eliminate anxiety, these self-care reminders from Anxiety Canada will help you manage anxiety when it does arise. 

Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking

Questions for resisting manipulation and misinformation in today’s political and media landscape.

Questions for Challenging Thoughts

From PositivePsychology.com, this worksheet contains questions you can use to challenge your distressing, unwanted, or unhelpful thoughts.

Videos

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