10/10/2024
It's mental health awareness day... so we thought we'd share a mini self-regulating activity we do in sessions with clients. You can approach this however feels best to you, from drawing it out, to imagining it in your minds eye, to (if accessible) going to your real safe space with the items that you've chosen.
🧠 Safe space activity: When we say safe space, think about where that place is to you, is it a fort you made once, or your favourite spot your home, or at your grandparents home, or cousins. Or is it a comfy chair in a library or in a wood. Wherever it is, begin to picture what it will be like when you need it, think about sounds, weather, temperature etc.
🧠 What other things or objects are there with you? For us, it would be having a steaming cup of chai, and our dogs nestled beside us, and our favourite books piled at our feet.
🧠 If you're choosing people, they can be real or imaginary. Think about why you're choosing them.
🧠 You can come back to this space whenever you need to, and add or change it however you like, thinking about transferable objects (ie. cups of tea) to pull that feeling of being safe into your external world can help you regulate or self soothe.
Video is of a person drawing a brain using markers and watercolour paints, while texts about how do you manage your mental health play over the images.
