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Battle Creek Salmon Trail
2 miles one way

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Blue Gravel Mine Trail
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1.75 miles one way

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Castle Crags State Park
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28 miles total

Churn Creek Trails
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~ 5.5 miles total

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Clear Creek Greenway Trails
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Multiple trail networks - see map for distances

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Clover Creek Preserve
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1.5 mile paved loop

FB Trail
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9.3 miles one way

Flanagan and Chamise Peak Trails
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Flanagan 2.5 miles one way; Chamise 2.4 miles one way

Hornbeck Trail
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4 miles one way

Lassen Volcanic National Park
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~ 150 miles total

Lower Sacramento Ditch Trail
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2.8 miles one way

Lower Sacramento Rail Trail
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3.75 miles one way

Redding Rancheria Trail
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1 mile loop

Swasey Recreation Area
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Turtle Bay East
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Upper Sacramento Ditch Trail
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Westside Trails
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Whiskeytown National Recreational Area
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Steven Hickman, Psy.D., executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, offers this timely perspective on managing our new virtual reality.

I've been teaching mindfulness and compassion for about twenty years now, and I believe I thrive when I'm sitting with a group of people open to exploring this transformative practice. Friends and family have known me to "come alive" when I am teaching and I feel a familiar surge of excitement and animation when I have those opportunities. But the other day, a colleague invited me to co-teach a short compassion session online with her. I deeply appreciated the invitation but immediately declined because I just haven't felt like a teacher since this virus invaded our lives. I've worked my tail off in other ways, but something had me holding back from teaching. I knew in my bones that I couldn't do this, but that made me curious.

I've spent hours in Zoom meetings of various sorts the past couple weeks, connected with dear friends in China, Australia, England, Israel, Spain, Singapore, Canada, Switzerland and Croatia (to name just a few). I have felt joy arising to see the faces and hear the voices of people whose faces and voices I first encountered when we were breathing the same air, standing in the same physical space, each (in Dan Siegel's term) "feeling felt" by the other. And so it was nice to be with them electronically in this age of social distancing and sheltering in place.

And that was it, it was nice.

I've been so busy lately that I thought perhaps I was just fatigued. But the more it happens, the more I realize that I end up feeling both connected but disconnected to these dear people. And I have heard multiple accounts of therapists doing tele-therapy and sharing how exhausted they feel after several sessions online.

Zoom Exhaustion Is Real

There is a different quality to our attention when we are online. We are hyper-focused on the few available visual cues that we normally gather from a full range of available body language. Or perhaps, we are totally distracted and checking email while we are supposed to be conversing or listening intently to a colleague's detailed presentation. If we are with several people online at the same time, we are simultaneously processing visual cues from all of those people (and perhaps a handful of their pets and children too!) in a way we never have to do around a conference table. It is a stimulus-rich environment, but just like rich desserts, sometimes too rich is just too much.

If we are with several people online at the same time, we are simultaneously processing visual cues from all of those people in a way we never have to do around a conference table.

And when we start to be over-stimulated by extraneous data that we haven't had to process in the physical world, each new data point pushes us just a little bit farther away from the human-to-human connection that we all crave and appreciate. Italian management professor Gianpiero Petriglieri recently tweeted "It's easier being in each other's presence, or in each other's absence, than in the constant presence of each other's absence." So beautifully and eloquently perceptive!

The constant presence of my colleagues' absence may have been underlying my disinclination to do what I love on this platform that has become a lifeline for so many of us. And so, the question arises for me: Is there some way to ease the burden of this "disconnected connection" and allow me to foster a better balance of connection between us?

Six Ways to Manage Zoom so we Can Find Balance and Connection

Here's what I am going to try starting today (and suggest you consider) when my new reality resumes anew and I find myself on various calls with all manner of people looking to connect in various ways:

Take a few moments before clicking "Start" to settle and ground your attention. Take a few breaths, feel your body on the chair, notice whatever is present in your mind and allow yourself to arrive fully to the moment at hand. If you're feeling unsettled or preoccupied, you might place your hand on your heart in a supportive and comforting way as if to say "I'm here for you. It's ok to feel how you feel at this moment."

Take the time to truly greet whoever is in the room with your full attention-offer your attention to each face that appears (if the group is not too big). Give yourself a moment for each person to make an impression on you, and "take in the good" as Rick Hanson would say. Give yourself an opportunity to feel what it feels like to be in the presence of another.

Choose "speaker view." In Zoom, one can choose Speaker View or Gallery View, and I think I prefer Speaker View so that the one person who is speaking has more of my attention and the others are more peripheral. This seems to be more like sitting around a conference table where we are aware of everyone there but we direct our attention primarily to whoever is speaking. Tracking an array of 24 (or more) faces on the screen can be a challenge!

Resist the urge to multitask. I sheepishly have to admit that I am a multi-tasker on Zoom many times and have been known to read and fire off several emails while also sitting in a meeting. This has got to stop. Not because I need to hyper-focus on just what is happening in the meeting, but because I can't be putting additional effort into attending to anything else. If anything, I need to let go of a bit of "efforting" and let my attention rest more lightly and lovingly on what (and who) is before me. I can periodically ease up my focus and look out the window behind my screen, or at the knick-knacks on the shelves in my office, or just soften my gaze to take in the array of faces on my screen (to see without looking) without having to analyze or scrutinize any of them.

Try to take measured breaks between sessions. As a clinical psychologist, when I used to do psychotherapy, I was fairly good at enforcing a 50-minute hour. That gave me ten minutes to write notes, run to the restroom, get a drink of water and generally settle and decompress. Quite often my Zoom meetings run back to back and I find that sometimes my Zoom room becomes a kind of random encounter anteroom where people from various aspects of my personal and professional life bump into each other for a few moments on their way in and out of a meeting with me. Fun as these moments are sometimes, I need to take better care of my precious attention and energy, and take a refreshing pause. Why not give that a try yourself?

And finally, remind yourself periodically that this is a new place between presence and absence that we will have to learn how to accommodate as we go forward into the uncertain future. It is both better than absence (imagine life in a pandemic without FaceTime, Zoom, Skype and the rest) and not quite as resonant as presence (do we know if mirror neurons still function over the internet like they do in person?). Let's see if we can simultaneously refrain from high expectations without dismissing the clear benefits of online communication.

And let's not forget those benefits. We can have important meetings while only dressed appropriately from the waist up. Our beloved pets can be perched lovingly in our laps while we review our colleague's budget projections. If we are the host of the meeting we can "accidentally" mute or remove a colleague in a way that would never be socially appropriate in person. We can even feign a poor connection if the meeting is getting so deadly dull that we are in danger of nodding off and striking our heads on our keyboards.

But on a serious note, let's not dismiss this amazing technology, but instead learn to find a way to assimilate it into a full spectrum of interpersonal experiences that our new lives include. Let's be present to absence, without becoming absent to presence. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it to develop this new capacity.

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Steven Hickman, Psy.D., executive director of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, offers this timely perspective on managing our new virtual reality. I've been teaching mindfulness and compassion for about twenty years now, and I believe I thrive when I'm sitting with a group of people open to exploring this transformative practice.

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Do you need calm down kit ideas? Or have you been wondering how to make a calm down box for kids, but don't know where to start? This printable list of 40+ things to put in a calm down kit is the ideal starting point!

Every child should learn coping skills.

And every child can benefit from having their own homemade calm down kit, filled with calming tools and things that suit their needs and interests.

I've always tried my best to teach my kids emotional regulation strategies such as deep breathing exercises, talking about emotions, and doing meditation as a family.

It is my hope that they'll feel confident managing anxiety, stress, and sensory overwhelm because they've practiced these different strategies. And having a tailor-made calm down box is another one of the strategies we use to promote healthy self-regulation skills.

So if you've been wondering how to make a calm down kit for your own kids, then look no further than this free printable list of 40+ things to put in their kit.

While this list is geared towards smaller children, I also have a list geared specifically towards older kids.

What to Include in a Calm Down Kit for Kids

There are lots of different things that you can include in a calm down kit and obviously, you will want to tailor it to your child(ren). Here are 40+ things you can put in a calm down kit for anxious kids:

1. Free printable visual calm down strategies cards

2. Bottle of bubbles

3. Chew toy or chew necklace

4. Small puzzle

5. Fidgets such as Tangle Jr. or puffer ball

6. Weighted lap cushion or stuffed animal - You can find some great DIY ideas under tip #10 here.

7. Weighted vest or pressure vest

8. Stretchy resistance bands

9. Sensory tunnel

10. Hearing protection ear muffs or noise canceling headphones

11. Chewing gum, hard candies, or lollipops - We love Pur natural chewing gum and Spry natural chewing gum!

12. Calming essential oil spray

13. Rescue remedy - I swear by this stuff! Seems to instantly calm meltdowns!

14. MP3 player with music and/or audiobooks - Be sure to include headphones and an accompanying book for the audiobook so they can read along while listening.

15. Book of yoga poses or printable yoga cards

16. Blank notebook and a writing utensil (crayons, pencil crayons, markers, or similar)

17. Sensory bottle or calm down jar - I love this post about 6 ways to make a calm down jar from Preschool Inspirations.

18. Skipping rope - Try our DIY skipping rope that's made from straws!

19. Visual stims such as a kaleidoscope or an hourglass

20. Books to read

21. Activity books: dot to dots, mazes, word searches, I Spy, etc. - Or print off a bunch of our I Spy printables and include them in your calm down kit!

22. Stress balls

23. Play dough or silly putty

24. Photo album filled with photos of family and friends

25. Small blanket

26. Bubble wrap

27. Pinwheels - To encourage deep breathing and blowing out.

28. Rubik's cube

29. Small chalk board and chalk, Magna-Doodle, Etch-a-Sketch, or Boogie Board for doodling and drawing

30. Eye mask

31. Tissue paper to rip - Fill a zipper seal bag with tissue paper. Kids can rip what they need.

32. Light up toys, flashlight, or similar

33. Plastic snow globe - Acts like a calm down or sensory bottle and makes for a great visual stim.

34. Snacks with a variety of textures like crunchy (pretzels or nuts), chewy (fruit leather or dried fruit), or soft (marshmallows)

35. Pipe cleaners to twist and bend

36. Coloring books

37. Scarves or fabric scraps

38. Spinning top

39. Mini massager

40. Scratch and sniff stickers

41. Whistle, harmonica, party blowers, or similar small wind instrument - To encourage kids to breath out. Also, making music is a great way to release a variety of emotions.

42. Small mirror for making silly faces and exploring emotions

43. Straws and pom poms or cotton balls - A great oral motor idea to encourage deep breaths.

44. Body sock - Kids can retreat into a body sock for calming proprioceptive sensory input. Since they fold up relatively small, they make a great addition to a calm down kit.

45. Smelling bottles - Just fill bottles with calming scents, such as lavender.

46. Scratch art doodle pad

47. Social stories dedicated to deep breathing, calming strategies, chewing, or loud noises

Other Great Calm Down Tools for Anxious Kids

Here are some items that you might want to have accessible to your child during their calm down time. I even encourage you to create or designate an entire space to be your child's calm down corner and include these items in it.

1. Wiggle/balance cushion - Great for sitting on, walking on, balancing, on, etc.

2. Weighted blanket

3. Large cardboard box, fort, or ball pit - Kids will love retreating to these quiet places, but using a ball pit also provides lots of calming proprioceptive input.

4. Exercise ball - Perfect for bouncing or balancing on.

5. Mini trampoline - Great for kids who love to jump as a way to calm down.

Download the Free Printable Calm Down Kit List

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She's an avid book reader, lifelong learner, and former piano teacher. She likes Toad as her Mario Kart driver and prefers to listen to audiobooks and podcasts at 2.8x speed. Her idea of a perfect lunch is nachos. You can frequently catch her saying, "It's Dyan, not Dylan. There's no L."

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Little children are full of energy and it often seems like their batteries will never run out, but they also get overwhelmed, overstimulated and anxious.

Sometimes, all they need is a change of pace or activity to calm their nerves or reset.

While you can encourage activities such as breathing, closing your eyes or getting into a stretchy yoga pose, sometimes just a change of the type of activity will do the trick.

Try these calming activities in the classroom or at home. They're great for toddlers, preschoolers and school-aged children.

They are simple ideas, but the kinds of activities that get kids sitting and concentrating for a while, which can be grounding.

1. Playdough

Using sensory activities to calm down is one of the most effective strategies. Playdough is a wonderful substance that kids can play with for hours.

Moulding and squeezing it is a great way to get rid of tension and calm the mind.

Read about the many benefits of playdough or make some homemade playdough.

2. Slime

Slime is an alternative that's also popular with kids.

It's easy to make your own slime and will keep the kids busy and amused. Getting them involved in mixing it themselves can also be quite a relaxing activity.

Try these fun slime activities with your kids.

3. Carpet Games

Carpet games are great transition activities that will also calm down a group of children. They are quiet and don't hype kids up.

Some examples are Broken telephone, Simon Says or the Murder wink game.

Here are some 21 carpet games that are perfect for circle time.

4. Sand Play

Playing with sand is one of the most calming activities for anxiety and one that should be available for kids as often as possible. Preschoolers especially can be found in the sandpit every day.

The beauty of sand is that it offers no resistance and therefore is always a positive and successful experience.

5. Water Play

Water play is just as popular with young kids as sand play, and for good reason. Playing with water is so therapeutic.

While this activity can get kids hyped up and excited, if you set it up a certain way, it can become calming and quiet.

Instead of switching on a sprinkler or having 10 kids around a big water table, set up small troughs of water where children can play independently or in small, calm groups.

Here are some water play ideas to make it fun and new.

6. Sensory Stations

One way to have a calming session with a group of children is to set up an area with various sensory stations.

These can be anything from a container with beads or coloured rice to a table with glue and fabrics.

They don't need to be complicated or time-consuming to set up. Here are some simple sensory stations to get you started.

7. Listening to a Story

Reading to children is the biggest gift you can give them for multiple reasons. One of those reasons is that listening to stories is incredibly calming, not to mention bonding.

There's a reason bedtime stories exist as reading is one of the most calming things one can do before bedtime, even as an adult.

Here are four short bedtime stories and four funny animal stories.

To make the activity super calming in class, get kids to lie down and close their eyes while listening.

8. Reading Corner

You will find a reading corner in every good school and it's a great feature to have in a home too.

Children find it calming to sit in a quiet space and page through a book or read it (if they're old enough).

The trick is to create a cosy, private space for reading that kids will see as a sanctuary and place to go to for some alone time.

Add beanbags and cushions and try to cordon off the area with a moveable bookshelf or screen.

9. Audio Stories

To let kids get completely into their own world, without any distractions, offer a corner with audio stories and earphones. This will settle any nerves and give children some time to recharge.

10. Puzzles

Puzzles require so much concentration and determination to finish that they are naturally good for grounding kids and settling them.

To make it relaxing, make sure the puzzles are age-appropriate and not impossibly difficult to complete. The activity must be successful to work.

Read about the many benefits of puzzles or get your own printable set by downloading the FREE educational games at the end of the post.

11. Playing Games

Any quiet games that kids can play on a carpet or table, without moving around, will be calming and have a similar effect to building puzzles.

Good games to offer include matching games or memory games, sequencing cards (these are also found in the free printables at the end of the article), board games, pegboards, etc.

12. Calming Exercises

For a quick reset, get all the kids to do some exercises to calm their nerves and help them to concentrate again.

Here are some examples of calming exercises for children:

Stretch your toes forwards and backwards

Bend over and hold your toes

Shrug your shoulders, one at a time

Swing your arms backwards and forwards

Pretend you are walking along a rope

Stand on the tips of your toes

Pretend to be a ball and rock backwards, forwards and around

Lie on your tummy, lift your arms and hold them in the air like a plane

Here are more exercises to improve attention span.

13. Brain Breaks

Use regular brain breaks, especially when teaching small kids, in between lessons or when they are losing focus or getting too rowdy.

Just like it benefits adults to get up from their desks and stretch their legs or have a cup of tea, kids' attention will be reset and they will feel calmer after a movement break.

These breaks can be as simple as stretching or doing some "air drawing". Here are 10 brain break activities.

14. Listening to Music

Have a music station set up in the class or home with some relaxing music such as classical music or instrumental music.

Music is soothing for children and will immediately calm their nerves. Add earphones to give even more privacy.

15. Singing

Children love singing and spontaneously sing from a very young age. Use singing in your home and class to refocus kids and relax them.

There are many benefits of singing and the act of doing it can release tension and feel soothing.

16. Construction Play

Playing with manipulatives is a calming activity that draws kids in as they work on their creations.

Construction play can take many forms, such as:

It's an easy activity to do independently so kids can take some time out when they're building.

17. Gardening

As many adults will agree, spending time in the garden or exploring nature with kids is therapeutic and a wonderful way to connect with ourselves and feel at peace.

Encourage your kids with these gardening activities.

18. Cloud Stories

This one is a gem for a cloudy day. Lie on your backs outside and watch the clouds go by. Look for shapes in the clouds and tell stories about the images you see forming in the clouds.

You can even go back inside and draw what you saw.

19. Group Colouring Board

This is a great calming activity for the classroom. While colouring pages are not good for developing creativity, they have their place. Kids enjoy them and they can be very calming.

A fun way to include multiple kids is to create a colouring wall with a large colouring sheet taped to it for a group of children to colour in at the same time.

This will become a popular place to go to for some quiet time.

20. Drawing

Drawing is the most basic activity but one that kids should do daily. There are multiple benefits of drawing, one of those being how relaxing it is.

Drawing gives kids an outlet to show how they feel or put onto paper how they are experiencing the world. Children's drawings are often used in therapy to give adults clues into kids' feelings.

Children progress through predictable stages of drawing, and their drawings show their level of maturity and understanding of the world.

21. Painting

Painting has multiple benefits too and is another fun alternative to drawing.

Moving liquid paint over paper is quite soothing and therapeutic for kids and gives them a way to freely express themselves. Although messy, fingerpainting is probably the most soothing and liberating activity.

22. Cutting and Pasting

Cutting and pasting activities require a lot of concentration and are a good activity for calming busybodies.

To make it really relaxing, provide collage materials, glue and paper and let kids create freely without instructions or models to follow.

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Active listeners provide a non-judgmental, unbiased, non-discriminatory, and understanding ear to callers in crisis, considering suicide, and those who need emotional support or just someone to talk to. Help Inc. also provides referrals to callers who may need them.

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MENTAL HEALTH

National Alliance on Mental Illness

The National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation's leading voice on mental health. Today, we are an alliance of more than 600 local affiliates who work in your community to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need.

Each Mind Matters is California's Mental Health Movement. We are millions of individuals and thousands of organizations working to advance mental health. The mental health movement certainly didn't start with us, but Each Mind Matters was created to unite all of us who share a vision of improved mental health and equality.

Every day, millions of people face stigma related to mental health because they or their loved ones are facing a challenge. Many of these people feel isolated and alone, going years before receiving any help. Our goal is to amplify the voices of all people who want to put an end to this stigma, creating a community where everyone feels comfortable reaching out for the support they deserve.

The National Institute of Mental Health

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. It is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest biomedical research agency in the world. NIH is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Here you will find authoritative information about mental health, a range of related topics, and the latest mental health research.

Many resources can be found here for college-aged young adults. They provide a section called The Self Evaluator, which gives you access to mental health screeners including the following:

Depression Screener / PHQ-9

Anxiety Screener / GAD-7

Eating Disorder Screener / SCOFF

Alcohol & Substance Misuse Screener / CAGE-AID

Plus, their Seize the Awkward campaign, in partnership with Ad Council and AFSP, is amazing!. Learn more about the campaign and how you can use an awkward silence to check in with a friend about how they're feeling.

Social Media Use & Mental Health: A Review

An ongoing open-source literature review posted and curated by Jonathan Haidt (NYU-Stern) and Jean Twenge (San Diego State U). This Google doc is a working document that contains the citations and abstracts of the published articles we have found that shed light on a question that is currently being debated in the USA and UK: Does social media use contribute to the recent rise of adolescent mood disorders (depression and anxiety) and related behaviors (especially self-harm and suicide)? [See companion review for studies documenting this recent rise.]

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National Alliance on Mental Illness The National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation's leading voice on mental health.

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How to Stop Waking Up in the Middle of the Night- 6 Ways to Beat Insomnia Without Medication

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National Council on Traumatic Stress Network

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National Council on Traumatic Stress Network

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The National Child Traumatic Stress Network

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The following resources on Traumatic Grief were developed by the NCTSN.

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COPING SKILL SPOTLIGHT: 5 4 3 2 1 GROUNDING TECHNIQUE

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COPING SKILL SPOTLIGHT: 5 4 3 2 1 GROUNDING TECHNIQUE

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Fun grounding activity for all ages.

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Coping Skill Spotlight: 5 4 3 2 1 Grounding Technique — Coping Skills for Kids

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This technique will take you through your five senses to help remind you of the present. This is a calming technique that can help you get through tough or stressful situations. Take a deep belly breath to begin.

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For younger children.

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Thought Bubbles | Cosmic Kids Zen Den - Mindfulness for kids

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Is This Why You're Depressed? Stop Should-ing on Yourself

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Six Stress-Busting Strategies for Adults

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Six Stress-Busting Strategies for Adults

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Fall Asleep Despite Anxious Thoughts (US Navy Technique)

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Turn off Anxiety in Your Nervous System: 4 Ways to Turn on the Parasympathetic Response

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Habit Builder, Emotion Processing and more...

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Habit Builder, Emotion Processing and more...

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Online Mental Health Courses created by Therapy in a Nutshell and Emma McAdam. These mental health courses can help you learn skills to manage depression and anxiety, learn how to process emotions, improve relationships and learn other essential mental health skills.

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Harrison Storm | Be Slow - Acoustic (Official Audio)

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With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you can block or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.

Set Content & Privacy Restrictions

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Turn on Screen Time, then tap it again. Choose "This is My [Device]" or "This is My Child's [Device]."

If you're the parent or guardian of your device and want to prevent another family member from changing your settings, tap Use Screen Time Passcode to create a passcode, then re-enter the passcode to confirm. After you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.

If you're setting up Screen Time on your child's device, follow the prompts until you get to Screen Time Passcode and enter a passcode. Re-enter the passcode to confirm. After you confirm your passcode you'll be asked to enter your Apple ID and password. This can be used to reset your Screen Time passcode if you forget it.

3. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode, then turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions.

Make sure to choose a passcode that's different from the passcode that you use to unlock your device. To change or turn off the passcode on your child's device, tap Settings > Screen Time > [your child's name]. Then tap Change Screen Time Passcode or Turn Off Screen Time Passcode, and authenticate the change with Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.
Learn what to do if you forgot your Screen Time passcode
With iOS 16 or later, while you're setting up Screen Time for a child's device, you can set age-related restrictions for content in apps, books, TV shows, and movies. Just follow the onscreen instructions during setup.

Prevent iTunes & App Store purchases

You can also prevent your child from being able to install or delete apps, make in-app purchases, and more. To prevent iTunes & App Store purchases or downloads:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.

3. Tap iTunes & App Store Purchases.

4. Choose a setting and set to Don't Allow.

You can also change your password settings for additional purchases from the iTunes & App Store or Book Store. Follow steps 1-3, then choose Always Require or Don't Require.

Allow built-in apps and features

You can restrict the use of built-in apps or features. If you turn off an app or feature, the app or feature won't be deleted, it's just temporarily hidden from your Home Screen. For example, if you turn off Mail, the Mail app won't appear on your Home Screen until you turn it back on.

To change your Allowed Apps:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.

3. Enter your Screen Time passcode.

4. Tap Allowed Apps.

5. Select the apps that you want to allow.

Prevent explicit content and content ratings

You can also prevent the playback of music with explicit content and movies or TV shows with specific ratings. Apps also have ratings that can be configured using content restrictions.

To restrict explicit content and content ratings:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.

3. Choose the settings that you want for each feature or setting under Allowed Store Content.

Here are the types of content that you can restrict:

Music, Podcasts, News, Fitness: Prevent the playback of music, music videos, podcasts, news, and workouts containing explicit content

Music Videos: Prevent finding and viewing music videos

Music Profiles: Prevent sharing what you're listening to with friends and seeing what they're listening to

Movies: Prevent movies with specific ratings

TV Shows: Prevent TV shows with specific ratings

Books: Prevent content with specific ratings

Apps: Prevent apps with specific ratings

App Clips: Prevent app clips with specific ratings

Prevent web content

iOS and iPadOS can automatically filter website content to limit access to adult content in Safari and other apps on your device. You can also add specific websites to an approved or blocked list, or you can limit access to only approved websites. Follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions and enter your Screen Time passcode.

3. Tap Content Restrictions, then tap Web Content.

4. Choose Unrestricted Access, Limit Adult Websites, or Allowed Websites.

Depending on the access you allow, you might need to add information, like the website that you want to restrict.

Each time your child updates a device signed in with their Apple ID to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10, or macOS Sonoma for the first time, Web Content Restrictions is reset to Limit Adult Websites for all their devices.

Restrict Siri web search

To restrict Siri features:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.

3. Scroll down to Siri, then choose your settings.

You can restrict these Siri features:

Web Search Content: Prevent Siri from searching the web when you ask a question

Explicit Language: Prevent Siri from displaying explicit language

Restrict Game Center

To restrict Game Center features:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions, then tap Content Restrictions.

3. Scroll down to Game Center, then choose your settings.

You can restrict these Game Center features:

Multiplayer Games: Prevent the ability to play multiplayer games with everyone, allow with friends only, or allow with anyone

Adding Friends: Prevent the ability to add friends to Game Center

Connect with Friends: Prevent the ability to share a Game Center friend list with third-party games

Screen Recording: Prevent the ability to capture the screen and sound

Nearby Multiplayer: Prevent the ability to enable the nearby setting

Private Messaging: Prevent the ability to voice chat or send or receive custom messages with game and friend invitations

Profile Privacy Changes: Prevent the ability to change profile privacy settings

Avatar & Nickname Changes: Prevent the ability to change Game Center avatars and nicknames

Allow changes to privacy settings

The privacy settings on your device give you control over which apps have access to information stored on your device or the hardware features. For example, you can allow a social-networking app to request access to use the camera, which allows you to take and upload pictures.

To allow changes to privacy settings:

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.

3. Under Privacy, tap the setting that you want to change.

Here are the things you can restrict:

Location Services: Lock the settings to allow apps and websites to use location

Contacts: Prevent apps from accessing your Contacts

Calendars: Prevent apps from accessing your Calendar

Reminders: Prevent apps from accessing your Reminders

Photos: Prevent apps from requesting access to your photos

Share My Location: Lock the settings for location sharing in Messages and Find My Friends

Bluetooth sharing: Prevent devices and apps from sharing data through Bluetooth

Microphone: Prevent apps from requesting access to your microphone

Speech Recognition: Prevent apps from accessing Speech Recognition or Dictation

Apple Advertising: Prevent changes to advertising settings

Allow Apps to Request to Track: Prevent tracking activity by apps that you've denied access to

Media & Apple Music: Prevent apps from accessing your photos, videos, or music library

Allow changes to other settings and features

You can allow changes to other settings and features, the same way you can allow changes to privacy settings.

1. Go to Settings and tap Screen Time.

2. Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions. If asked, enter your passcode.

3. Under Allow Changes, select the features or settings that you want to allow changes to and choose Allow or Don't Allow.

Here are some features and settings that you can allow changes for:

Passcode Changes: Prevent changes to your passcode

Account Changes: Prevent account changes in Accounts & Passwords

Cellular Data Changes: Prevent changes to cellular data settings

Reduce Loud Sounds: Prevent changes to volume settings for safe listening

Driving Focus: Prevent changes to the Driving Focus

TV Provider: Prevent changes to TV provider settings

Background App Activities: Prevent changes to whether or not apps run in the background

Make changes to health and safety features

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Use parental controls on your child's iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

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With Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time, you can block or limit specific apps and features on your child's device. You can also restrict the settings on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch for explicit content, purchases and downloads, and privacy.