Self Care

What is self-care?

Self-Care is any intentional actions you take to care for your physical, mental, and emotional health.

Enjoy this video on tips to help you handle stress and anxiety caused by COVID-19.

Apps

Calm

• Calm is an app that produces meditation products, including guided meditations, a book, narrated Sleep Stories, and health and meditation videos. Their primary product is the meditation app, available on iPhone and Android devices.

MoodTools

• MoodTools is a free self-help app targeting depression. It provides psychoeducation about risk factors and psychosocial approaches to treatment, a depression symptom questionnaire, a thought diary, a suicide safety plan, and videos such as meditation guides.

myStrength: follow link to register 

• Amidst the stress of the current coronavirus crisis, the Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Healthcare is offering the application myStrength.  myStrength is a self-help resource that is available 24/7, is private and confidential, and provides information and inspiration on a multiple topics. myStrength offers content and resources on including Coping Skills During COVID-19, stress management, depression, anxiety, substance use disorders, chronic pain, sleep disturbance issues, and more. 

Articles

• Self-Care in the Time of Coronavirus

• Taking Care of Yourself 

• Taking Care of Your Family During Coronavirus and Other Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks 

• Tips for Disaster Responders: Preventing and Managing Stress

• Tips for Disaster Responders: Preventing and Managing Stress (Spanish)

• Tips for Disaster Responders: Understanding Compassion Fatigue 

How to do Self-Care

• 5 Self-Care Practices for Every Area of Your Life

• Emergency Responders: Tips for Taking Care of Yourself

• Self-Care: Finding The Time

• Social Distancing? Here's how to Prioritize Self-Care

Stress

• 101 Ways to Cope with Stress

• Coping with a Disaster or Traumatic Event

• Coping with Disaster Fact Sheets 

• COVID-19: Managing Stress in this Anxious Time

• COVID-19: Managing Stress in this Anxious Time (Espanol)

• Feeling Stressed or Anxious about the COVID-19 Pandemic?

• Managing Healthcare Workers' Stress Associated with the COVID-19 Virus Outbreak

• Surviving Field Stress for First Responders

• Sustaining Yourself During the Coronavirus Crisis

• Traumatic Incident Stress: Information for Emergency Response Workers

• Watch Live Videos of Bears in Alaska to Lower Stress