Instead of focusing on dealing with a specific feeling in this blog entry, I want to discuss self-talk. Self-talk is the things you tell yourself inwardly, although you might say them out loud sometimes as well. "I'm kind" or "I'm intelligent" are examples, but so is telling yourself "I never do anything right. I'm useless. I'm a bad person." I use...
Most of the exercises I suggested in the blog entry about for dealing with anger will calm you down when you're feeling scared as well. However, there are some specific exercises that can help you manage fear, which I will share here. You might want to practice the exercises in this blog entry several times before trying them out while you're feeli...
In the previous blog entry, we looked at anger as a response to bullying. Anger can sometimes be a relatively easy feeling to have, something that hurts us less than other challenging emotions do. In other words, anger can be masking a different emotion. One of the emotions it could be masking is fear. Bullies are scary. Some of them are bigger tha...
The last blog entry talked about the feelings you could have while being bullied. For this entry, I want to talk about how to get rid of anger, which is a common feeling when you're being bullied. These exercises can work with anger caused by anything, not just bullying. Of course, the same things might not work for everyone and you might dis...
Hello. Welcome to the Spiral blog. My name is Adam Kyles, and I'm a volunteer at Spiral. I'm going to be giving you useful information over the coming weeks about what Spiral does, how to deal with bullying, and other helpful topics. For this first blog entry, I thought I would introduce myself. I joined Spiral because I wanted to help young people...