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Learning About the Brain: A Brain Worksheet PDF Resource

This simple brain worksheet PDF is designed to be an easily approachable visual teaching aid for all ages. By emphasizing basic geography over anatomical correctness, …

This is an image of a flowchart titled “Anxiety - Choose Your Own Adventure.” The flowchart is hand-drawn and has a yellow background. The flowchart has multiple decision points and paths, with each decision point represented by a speech bubble. The flowchart starts with a white box that has a yellow striped border and reads, “Start Here.” This is pointing to a box that says, “Uh-Oh! Anxiety Increases.” If you ignore the increase, you can choose to ignore by disassociating or neglecting it, but you’ll end up at the same point: “You’re still anxious but have secondary problems,” and you’ll be sent back to the start. If you decide to pay attention to the increased anxiety, you get to a flowchart point that says, “Good call! How?” If you choose to be mean instead of kind, you may have a shame spiral or self-contempt, making you feel worse and spending you back to the start. If you choose to be kind, you can choose to seek care and connection/movement/journaling, and it may help lead to self-care, or you can choose self-care directly. Will it be with others or solo? If solo, you can pet a dog, garden, or make art. If you do it with someone, you can talk, move together, or hug. Either way, your anxiety may improve! The flowchart is credited to @lindsaybraman.

Anxiety Worksheet: Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

Sometimes, a roadmap is all we need to find our way out of a confusing journey. I find that flowcharts can sometimes be that roadmap …

A four-page worksheet set for all ages titled

Social Support Building Worksheet Printable

For a lucky few of us, support systems are automatic. They’re effortlessly there to support us in good times and bad. For most of us, …

Printable: Daily Mental Health Checklist

On bad mental health days, basic self care can be hard. Really hard. I designed this resource to provide gentle structure and a mood-boosting sense …

A therapist-designed activity book created to help kids process COVID-19 and thrive beyond quarantine

COVID Kid’s Activity Book | A Workbook to Help Families Cope

Most of us are more than a little concerned about the mental health of the kiddos that we care about during this pandemic. The natural …

A genogram template filled out with a sample family from television.

Genogram Template: An New Option for Making Easier, Organized Genograms

Genograms can be powerful tools to build awareness of patterns in families and organizations, but what we don’t often acknowledge is that genograms can be …

Bullet journal mood tracker layout mockup

Bullet Journal Mood Tracker: A Mental Health Therapist’s Take

Although bullet journaling is about saving time and space, when it comes to a mood tracker, research suggests that slowing down may have benefits. In this article, learn how I used my training as a mental health therapist and my personal experience as a bullet journaler to reimagine a new mood tracker layout for 2021 and beyond- based on peer-reviewed research exploring the intersection of journaling and mental health.

Image of an open bullet jounal on a white background, pages contain mental health related templates.

4 Bullet Journal Layouts to Support Mental Health

Bullet Journal blogs and hashtags are filled with mental health and self-care focused templates, but are these layouts actually effective for maximizing the mental health benefits of a bullet journal? In this article, I explore existing research on how journaling and expressive writing can benefit mental health and, from that research, outline three ways to maximize the mental health benefits of your bullet journaling practice. Along the way, I’ll show you a few of my worksheets and resources that are perfect for adding to a bullet journal.

A playfully handdrawn worksheet with journaling prompts about generalized anxiety.

Generalized Anxiety Art: A Doodle About Being Anxious for No Reason

This download includes a worksheet on generalized anxiety. The 1-page black-and-white worksheet is designed to flip brains from “therapy homework” mode into “interactive activity book” mode, which may help folks develop awareness, mindfulness, and self-soothing skills with less of the stigma or avoidance that clinical resources sometimes prompt.

DBT Bingo: learning skills and practicing them is a part of how DBT can help us recover. Use this sheet to track and review your learning.

DBT Printables: Bingo Worksheet & DBT Skills Cheat Sheet

I believe that some resources used in Mental Health treatment are unnecessarily cold, clinical, or technical. These hard-to-relate-to resources may risk pushing people away instead of inviting them to engage in both a healing relationship with their therapist and with information that could help their recovery.

My printable resources like this DBT card are different. Consciously designed to integrate the fundamental concepts and package them in an approachable, non-clinical, non-threatening way, these DBT inspired worksheets can make diary cards, homework printables, and skills-practicing as easy and fun as activity books.