Coping skills

What are coping skills and coping activities?

Coping skills or activities are skills or activities people use to cope or "relax" or de-stress from all the
stress they may feel from every day life.

What is stress?
Stress is a feeling you get when you are around stressors. Often times people feel overwhelmed because
of these stressors. Think of it like having a lot of homework to do and it doesn’t seem to end. Stress is
normal, but also beatable.

What are examples of coping skills?

Some activities people use to cope with everyday life stressors include sleeping, playing sports, writing,
journaling, listening to music. Anything that can make you feel relaxed is a coping skill or a way to cope.

Coping skills worksheet

Checkmark or write down the activities you can use during times of stress or to cope with everyday life.

❏ Reading ❏ Traveling
❏ Journaling/Writing ❏ Hiking
❏ Song/Rap writing ❏ Track/Running/Jogging
❏ Listening to music ❏ Playing sports: ____________________
❏ Singing ❏ Playing instruments: _______________
❏ Drawing ❏ Building or making things
❏ Painting ❏ Playing video games
❏ Exercising ❏ Get a foot massage
❏ Meditating (yoga, taichi, etc.) ❏ Get a body massage
❏ Sleeping ❏ Go to the beach
❏ Lying down ❏ Buying new things / Shopping
❏ Watching TV, Movies, Videos ❏ _________________________
❏ Breathing Exercises ❏ _________________________
❏ Hanging out with friends ❏ _________________________
❏ Cleaning ❏ _________________________
❏ Taking a cold bath ❏ _________________________
❏ Bubble baths
❏ Lighting aromatic candles When can I use these coping skills or activities?
❏ Eating _______________________________________
❏ Cooking _______________________________________
❏ Fishing _______________________________________
❏ Driving _______________________________________
❏ Swimming _______________________________________