4 Simple Coping Mechanisms to Regain Calm and Control
Download your free guide to coping mechanisms, designed to lessen the impact of emotional overwhelm
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In this handout, you’ll learn techniques to:-
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Ground yourself during moments of overwhelm
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Calm racing thoughts, and bring your mind back to the present
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Restore a sense of peace, calm and control
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Avoid that inevitable embarrassment that comes with panicking in a public environment
What does emotional overwhelm mean to you?
Is it affecting your ability to function in pressurised situations? Are you finding that the frequency or depth of overwhelm is worsening rather than improving?
Emotional overwhelm can strike at any time, any place. I used to have some of my worst "panics" in the middle of the night. What should I do? Wake my husband? Endure the acute tightness of anxiety in my chest and hope it would fade? In those early days, I would leap out of bed, rushing around the house as though I could outrun it. My breathing would quicken, sometimes leading to hyperventilation. At times, I’d grab a swig of something, desperate to calm myself. But without tools to manage these episodes, they only worsened. When I sensed overwhelm approaching, I dreaded the descent into anxiety and panic—and this only fueled the fire.
How different my life and sleep would have been if I had sought help back then. If only the internet had been there to show me that I wasn't alone, and that there were tools and techniques available to manage such emotional overload.
Today, I have an arsenal of coping mechanisms at my fingertips, and I teach every client how to use them. The key is to practice these techniques when we're calm, so when overwhelm strikes, we can confidently put one into action.
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“Thank you so much for all our sessions and thank you for how supportive you’ve been. You have been helping me out so much…………………..I do feel the changes within myself too. It’s amazing and weird and overwhelming and wonderful. I am so thankful”
Who am I?
I am a grief coach specialising in those that are childless not by choice. My journey through grief from a number of major life changes, bereavements and being CNBC led me to train as a Grief to Gratitude coach. This feels more a calling than a job, and I am super passionate to support anyone on their grief journey to their alternate future.
My experience tells me that those that are grieving tend to experience confidence and self esteem issues, often resulting from emotional overwhelm eroding their self worth. Working with this overwhelm can help to avoid those potentially embarrassing moments, when like me, you have to escape yourself, and when this happens in a work meeting/family meal etc, can seriously affect our confidence, and how we perceive others see us.
'Judi's been so supportive and helpful. I have found her colour breathing meditation so helpful in times of needing to calm myself'
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Download your free guide to coping mechanisms, designed to lessen the impact of emotional overwhelm