An activity helping participants identify and manage the challenges in their daily lives.

Everyone is affected by stress and at one time or another it can feel very overwhelming. With the right tools, we can learn to manage stress before it impacts our health.

Make sure each participant has something to write on. Five minutes before ending your class or session, ask the participants to think about the things in their lives that are currently stressing them out. Have them write a word or phrase describing these things on a scrap piece of paper or post-it note. Once the participants are done writing, take five mindful breaths as a group. As they leave the room, instruct participants to rip, crumple, tear up and trash their papers (and their stress) and to think of one positive emotion to counteract the anxiety they feel.

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