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Painful Feelings

Painful feelings like fear, anger, and loneliness are a normal part of life, but sometimes managing these emotions may cause you to adopt harmful coping strategies. The following resources will provide you with tools to increase healthy coping mechanisms.

If the resources and tools provided do not help you, reach out to Student Counseling Services to get the support that you need.

On This Page:

Feeling Hopeless

Feeling Shame & Guilt

Guided Meditations

Insight Timer Meditations

Metta Meditations

Feeling Anger

Relaxation/Mindfulness

Feeling Distress

Distress is any emotional, social, spiritual, or physical pain or suffering that may cause a person to feel sad, afraid, depressed, anxious, or lonely. 

Feeling Lonely

Loneliness

Barriers of Shyness and/or Social Anxiety:

Improving Your Relationship with Yourself:

Relationships:

Feeling "Weird" or "Off"

If you are feeling “weird” or “off”, and the resources provided are not helpful, please consider seeking a medical evaluation.

Feeling Apathy

Additional Self-Help Resources

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  • Exercises M1 through M10 are often interconnected. While they can been done separately, it may be beneficial to try various exercises outside of the ones explicitly recommended here:
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  • by John Bradshaw
    Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, addiction and drive to superachieve that breaks down the family and destroys personal lives. This book has helped millions identify their personal shame, understand the underlying reasons for it, address these root causes and release themselves from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

  • by Shasta Nelson
    Shasta explores the most common complaints and conflicts facing female friendships today, and lays out strategies for overcoming these pitfalls to create deeper, supportive relationships that last for the long-term. Shasta is the founder of , a community of women seeking stronger, more fulfilling friendships, and the author of Friendships Don’t Just Happen. In Frientimacy, she teaches readers to reject the impulse to pull away from friendships that aren’t instantly and constantly gratifying.

  • by Rachel Wilkerson Miller
    If you’re having trouble connecting with those around you, know that you’re not the only one. Adult friendships are tricky! Part manifesto, part guide, The Art of Showing Up is soul medicine for our modern, tech-mediated age. Rachel Wilkerson Miller charts a course to kinder, more thoughtful, and more fulfilling relationships—and, crucially, she reminds us that “you can’t show up for others if you aren’t showing up for yourself first.” 
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