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Aim of the Badge: To develop and practice having a positive mental attitude.
No. 3 Give examples of different feelings and strategies for dealing with them.
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Give examples of different feelings and strategies for dealing with them. Covid induced feelings and how we are coping.

It’s important to give the girls time to share their feelings around Covid, and then to maybe end with a lighter activity like a game.

- Overwhelmed: Feeling overwhelmed is best tackled by breaking things down. Focus on TNT – The Next Thing. Give an example of a marathon runner – they don’t think of the full 26.2miles, the focus on 5 miles, then 2 miles and sometimes just 1 mile at a time. Break any big task or timeline down into smaller pieces with one target for each piece. This helps with the sense of achievement for each piece. The same can be said for a project for school or the task of decorating a house one room at a time.

- Timelessness: This is common due to Covid lockdowns and a lack of structure. An important life-skill is the ability to be able to set a routine and the advice around Covid restrictions is to focus on a routine. Encourage the girls to set their own routine for their days e.g., get up by 9am, breakfast, music, work for 1 hour, walk, work for 1 hour, etc. Especially important that somewhere in their routine is talking to someone – it can be a daily call/facetime with someone, but some structured contact with a person offline is important.

Explain to the girls about the ADLs that are used in helping people with depression. ADL stands for Activities of Daily Living. These are the basics required to help people focus on each day, one day at a time. You set small achievable targets – get up, shower, get dressed, eat meals (not just snacks), connect with a person, regular bedtime, sleep. And it’s ok to have days when you don’t meet these targets, but if you can’t achieve these over an extended period of a week or more, then it can be a sign you need to talk to someone to help you reset the targets and begin achieving them again.

- Motivation: or lack of motivation! This is common now as it seems like time is elastic. A useful tool is to think of the Motivation Fairy …. A cousin of the Tooth Fairy! We go to bed hoping the fairy will come and we will wake up in the morning with the motivation to clean our room, do a task, clean out the press, do an assignment. But the reality is that motivation is intrinsic. Sometimes it is fear that drives that motivation e.g., the fear of the deadlines makes us do it, or the fear of the consequences. Learning to self-motivate so we don’t feel stressed with looming deadlines is a skill that takes practice. And the feelings of satisfaction and relief when it is done in advance of a deadline need to outweigh the adrenaline rush some people get with meeting a deadline at the last minute!

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• copying strategies
• Covid-19
• feelings
• Guide Healthy Mind

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