Worksheets · Worksheet 5

My Plan for Hard Moments

Panic and waves of grief do not wait for a good time. A plan made while you are calm is much easier to follow when you are not.

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1Practise the long out-breath

Follow the circle: in for four, out for six. One minute is enough.

Ready when you are

Try all three now, so you know how it feels before you need it.

Everything blue around me

Words beginning with M

Trees and flowers I know

Choose one picture you can go to every time a hard image comes.

Where I go in my mind

What I see, hear and smell there

Keep this list somewhere you can see it at night.

Turning away from a feeling you cannot hold right now is not running away. You can come back to it when you are ready.