You Grow Girl Workshop - Coping Skills with Simi Jayeoba
“The goal isn’t to get rid of all your negative thoughts and feelings; that’s impossible! The goal is to change your response to them.”
Throughout the BTS You Grow Girl program, we are delivering a 6 part workshop series focussing on social and emotional skill development. Why? To build your resilience!
So far, we have looked at goal setting, decision making, and stress management, and building healthy relationships. Next week we discuss coping skills and transition to university or college with our very own BTS super star Simi Jayeoba!
Simi already wrote a blog post on coping skills that you can read below.
Benefits of Coping Skills
Excerpted it from Serenity Mental Health Centers
Mature coping skills help you deal with life’s difficult challenges in a healthy and productive way. If you don’t know how to deal with certain situations, they might only get worse. The right strategy, however, can get you through any situation quickly and with as little pain as possible.
Coping skills also help increase resilience. Resilience refers to how quickly a person is able to recover from a difficult situation, or in other words, how quickly and easily they bounce back after something like the death of a loved one or another difficult life situation. People who are highly resilient can process difficult experiences by acknowledging their mistakes, learning from the situation, and moving on.
Coping skills increase resilience because they help people learn how to properly handle negative emotions, panic attacks, and other difficult situations. When you effectively deal with a negative emotion or situation, you also move on and let go of the negative feelings that are associated with that experience.
So join us Tuesday, November 10 at 2:30 pm, when Simi will lead us through a free workshop on coping skills in a safe space!
For more information, visit You Grow Girl or contact Neal.
