Emotional First Aid Kit: 45 cards for self-care

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The continued focus on national racial inequities is likely causing increased anxiety and the need for extra support for ourselves and our youth. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As we strive towards a future where no child is without hope, we want to equip churches up and down the country to know how to spot the signs of emotional distress and respond to them effectively. Emotional First Aid will give you some of the initial insights and tools that TLG use to support a child like Aimee. Look at a picture and describe every single thing in the picture, what colours, shapes, textures etc.

FREE online training to help you spot the signs of emotional distress in children and adults, and know how to respond to them effectively.

This kit is a collection of what some of the wisest, most thoughtful people might say to us if they were next to us in our times of need. She is passionate about bringing psychology and evidence-based mental health information beyond the clinic room to a wider audience and encouraging people to proactively look after their mental health.

I would love to have you come into our class next year or if I could get the emergency kit training I would so appreciate any information on it. Her illustrative work has been used by a number of organisations including The American Association for the Prevention of Suicide, The Royal Society of Public Health and the Samaritans (India). You can have as many contents in your kit as you like; however, here’s a list of some of my must-haves. From helpful sleep tips to words on struggles with friendships, The School of Life brings us another treasure. A box of wise emergency advice for 20 key psychological situations, including: Friendship, Love, Sex, Work and Self.However, sometimes, you may have an emotional emergency and just like responding to a physical emergency, having the right Emotional First Aid Kit can help. Talking about self-care to adopters is all very well and good but we know that they often find it impossible to share the depths of their emotional worries or mental health spirals, due to being scared of social workers condemning them as bad parents, so I think this card deck is a super useful way of naming some of the complexities of mental and emotional health and reassuring that these are OK, we can work through it together, and that professionals want to help. There couldn’t be a better time than October 2020, the Mental Health Month, to build one for ourselves.

Please Note: If you have already booked onto The Emotional Rollercoaster training (for working with children aged 8-14), it covers the content of Emotional First Aid as well. Create a list of activities you can do to improve your mood – what usually makes you feel better, it could be doing a hobby, chatting to someone or just taking a walk. An emotional first aid kit contains supportive resources that you can turn to when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, low or stressed.

Keep a list of names and contact numbers of people who care about you and can cheer you up, so you can reach out to them. There are no rules around this; you can personalise your kit however you like and include whatever pleases you and brings you joy. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. This kit is an artful collection of some of what the wisest and kindest, most experienced and most thoughtful people might say to us if they were beside us in a crisis. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.