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    Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation
    Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation
    Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation
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    Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation

    By Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

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    You know those days when you just can't even? When everything is haywire and everyone, including yourself, seems to be against you, not to mention against reason? Your to-do list is a mile long, your kid is sick, traffic sucks, and you just spilled coffee all over yourself as you were about to walk out the door? How do you cope? Most of us don't have great coping skills, and turn instead to addictions, zoning out, or freaking out. Dr. Faith, author of the bestselling Unfuck Your Brain, offers a range of healthier strategies for getting through tough moments, gaining perspective, and shifting your attitude.This book teaches you different strategies for different types of situations, and includes skills from many methodologies, including CBT, DBT, ACT, Positive Psychology, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction, Somatic Experiencing, Jungian therapy, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicrocosm Publishing
    Release dateMay 10, 2019
    ISBN9781621067825
    Coping Skills: Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation
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    Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

    Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN is a bad-ass, funny lady with a PhD. She’s a licensed professional counselor, board supervisor, certified sexologist, and applied clinical nutritionist with a private practice and consulting business in San Antonio, TX. She has been an adjunct professor and a TEDx presenter, and proudly identifies as a woman of color and uppity intersectional feminist. She is the author of the book Unf*ck Your Brain and many other popular zines and books on subjects such as anxiety, depression, and grief. She is available as a public speaker and for corporate and clinical trainings.

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    • 2/5
      I didn't really think it was useful. This author tends to rely a lot on swearing to trick you into thinking the book is cool and that they're so relatable - but really it's just annoying and the content is pretty thin.
    • 5/5
      This little Oregon book-shop-published coping skills guide is really great. The badass author's voice comes through a lot, and it's both casual and well-researched (with techniques from lots of recognizable names in the field). There's a few editing errors here and there, but that's just indicative of how it was probably a small project intended to be super accessible. Apparently, it started out as a zine. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, at least check out the toolbox of 48 coping skills. I'm sharing that with everyone these days.
    • 2/5
      Cant take this seriously with all the curses. It would be clearer without those words.

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    • 2/5
      Written for an Amercican audience who need to be spoken to like toddlers in order to understand what's going on in our minds. The writing style is really grating for most of it as expletives and slang are routinely employed as a means of "straight-talking" when actually it reduces readability and credibility. That said, when the author wasn't trying (and failing) to be funny and "gangsta", there were some useful nuggets in the middle and and last chapter that actually seemed genuine. Don't waste hours reading this. You can skip around most of the dreck and cut straight to things you can do manage stress in the middle chapter and in the last chapter to get what you need from this book. Nothing is truly ground breaking and nothing you haven't at least heard in passing before. Safe yourself a struggle and just skip to the middle and end.

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    Coping Skills - Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, ACN

    Coping skills

    Tools & Techniques for Every Stressful Situation

    Part of the 5 Minute Therapy Series

    © Dr. Faith Harper, 2016, 2019

    This edition © Microcosm Publishing, 2019

    First edition, first published 2016

    Second edition, first published June 11, 2019

    eBook ISBN 978-1-62106-782-5

    This is Microcosm #280

    Book design and infographics by Joe Biel

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    Table Of Contents

    Introduction: Shit’s Fucked

    What Exactly Do You Mean By Coping?

    How Do Coping Skills Work?

    Basic Coping, Navy SEAL Style

    Types Of Coping

    Live Through This Skills

    Internal Judo

    Mitigate The Bullshit

    Find The Pony Skills

    Cope Onward

    Helping Others Cope

    An Empowering Conclusion Before You Face The World Yet Again

    References

    More Five Minute Therapy

    Introduction: Shit’s Fucked

    We are all cursed with living in interesting times. Even when shit is rocking along and our lives are generally positive, we are not fucking likely to focus on calmness or give ourselves space to think and chill. Remember when vacations were meant to be a time to have fun adventures? Now it’s a time to go away and sit somewhere and be as quiet, non-thinky, and non-doey as possible. I work with so many people who just need more time in their lives to chill. They aren’t crazy, they are just fucking exhausted.

    We are all seeking better ways to live with all this shit, right? When I say all this shit I am talking about what it means to be human in the 21st century. We are living in a time of huge uncertainty. Political upheaval, community violence, environmental distress. We are hyper-wired and overstimulated. And undernourished in all the ways that matter: authentic connection, stillness, healthy nourishment, joyful movement. We are seeking relief even more desperately than Aidan Quinn was seeking Susan.

    Let’s look at what’s gotten super popular in recent years. Pokemon Go. Fidget spinners. Coloring. My older (and therefore more middle aged than I am) brother succumbed to the planking craze a few years ago. These are all things that help soothe our minds when life is a dumpster fire. And there will likely be at least three more viral coping skill activities sweeping Insta between now and when this book is published. We need shit to help manage life stress. These are all coping skills activities. We are all actively seeking ways to manage things that feel unmanageable.

    So before we talk about specific types of coping skills and how they work and all that therapist-y bullshit, I want to say a few things as clearly as possible and as loudly as possible for those of y’all hovering around in the back. Needing coping skills is not a sign of weakness or mental illness. It means you are a normal human being navigating a truly abnormal culture. Lily Tomlin once said, Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

    There are a few things that are complete and fundamental truths about yourself and why you sometimes are struggling and need coping skills:

    • There are no such things as wrong responses, only adaptive ones.

    • What you have survived has wired your body to proceed with extreme caution, on an unconscious level at all times. This is called staying fucking alive and safe.

    • You are not choosing to shut down.

    • This is not a mental illness; it is a physiological state of the human body.

    • You are not crazy; you

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