Help for Anxiety and Depression in Midlothian, Texas
Let’s Relax: When you’re feeling anxious
Using relaxation techniques can help you to disengage your body from its hyper-alert and overly anxious responses. By calming your body’s fight-flight-freeze reactions you are re-training it to focus on what’s happening in the “here and now”.
What are you feeling right now?
If it’s difficult to label your feelings, you can use this feeling wheel to help.
Before beginning, check-in with yourself:
On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 is the worst and 1 is the least), where is my _______(list your feeling word) right now?
Write it down in your journal.
After completing your exercise, check-in with yourself again:
On a scale from 1 - 10 (10 is the worst and 1 is the least), where is my _______(list your feeling word) right now?
Write it down in your journal.
Pay attention to how you are feeling now and write about your experience in your journal to share with me at your next session.
Guided Relaxation
Amy Standifer, MA, LPC
Owner/Therapist
free resources for anxiety & depression
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
