Unleash is about why self-awareness, social awareness, and relationship skills are the key to practicing your plan and managing anxiety. 

Since you worked on Identify, Chill, and Plan, you're ready to try out some things. In order to practice your Plan, you will need to work on some skills. You'll have to ask questions and find out some things about yourself and the world around you. 

You might find that there are ways to be a better you or be more prepared for uncomfortable situations.

Unleash is about finding your superpowers and using them to deal with this crazy thing called life.

Conflict Resolution

When you're anxious, communicating your needs becomes an impossible task. You avoid conflict, so you keep quiet and suffer in silence.

You can build up a wall of resentment that's higher than our atmosphere. 

​Learn how to resolve conflict so you don't get trapped in an impossible situation where your Plan fails. 

Self-Esteem

Self-esteem is shaped by your thoughts, relationships, and experiences, including those related to culture, religion, and societal status. It's how well you like yourself. 

Anxiety can cause negative thoughts and make us doubt ourselves. We might think highly of ourselves and then be knocked down by our inability to control our anxiety.

Learn ways to make your Self-Esteem rock solid. 

Social Identity

A big part of who we are is who is around us. Our family, friends, and community help define who we are in more ways than one! The color of your eyes or hair comes from your family, but they don't control whether you get those things or not. Your language, food, and clothing, however, are choices that are influenced by the people around you. 

If you drew a picture of people and things that affect who you are, it might look like a web, with you in the middle! It's a noun map. 

Mapping out who you are can help you tackle social anxiety. Click here or on the social identity box to learn more and read the research!

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Personal Identity

Answering the question, "who am I?" is something you will do a lot while you're growing up. Some of us still ask that question as adults!

Who you are, or your identity, depends on a lot of things. Who you are as an individual and who you are in differents groups might be different. Find out more by clicking on the box. 

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Finding your Spark

A Spark is something that excites you and gives you energy. It can be something you're good at (like soccer or singing), something you care a lot about (like animals or the environment) or a quality you know is special (like being a good friend or caring about others).

Your spark can help you practice your Plan because it motivates you. Learn more by clicking on the box. 

Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset is super important to anxiety because it's a skill that helps you remember everything is a work in progress. 

​Having a growth mindset means you are willing to learn and grow, rather than give up. It's a good skill to have regardless of anxiety. 

Learn more and download a free worksheet!  by clicking on the Growth Mindset Box. ​

Character Strengths

​According to the research, we overuse empathy, social intelligence (to jump to conclusions) and humility (not being assertive), and underuse communication, curiosity, humor, joy, risk-taking, and emotional regulation. 

Sound familiar? It's pretty much all of us. ​Knowing your traits with help you feel more confident in your ability to manage anxiety and help you determine which strengths you need to use more. They are your superpowers in your Plan. ​​

Resiliency

Resiliency is the ability to overcome difficult situations without feeling gut punched and broken.

​When life presents you with a challenge (an exciting event got cancelled, your friend ignores you, you fail an important test, someone you care about is gone), resiliency means you can learn and grow from the experience rather than curl up and give up.

How resilient are you? 

Boundaries

Support

Anxiety makes us afraid to ask for help. But many times we miss opportunities because we don't want the hassle of asking for help. 

Think of all the energy you would save not doing it all on your own! 

How do you identify your support system and how do you grow your support system to help you manage anxiety?? Click on the Support system box to learn more and download a free worksheet!

Communication

Communication is social and emotional. It is about navigating complex friendship circles and feeling pressure to deliver or live up to expectations. It's about listening and understanding and choosing words carefully. 

It's really hard.

Whether it's receiving feedback, giving feedback, following directions, or reading the fine print, communication is pretty much the only social emotional skill you'll have to do to survive.  It's also the absolute worst thing for people with social anxiety.