Teaching children relaxation exercises like breathing, muscle relaxation, positive thinking, mindfulness, and yoga can empower them to identify stress cues and develop coping tools.

“so when I talk about the treatment being not so much about the what because there's many components here like education narrative uh that are common right exposure we we can talk about uh it's it's not so much about the what but it's about the how it's about empowering kids to identify those cues to say if a tool works or doesn't work to develop their own tools so but sometimes they are very stuck right and and they need a little bit of help so we teach them breathing exercises and we have a script for that we te Teach them muscle relaxation and we have uh something for that we teach them the positive thinking for example so that's a cognitive uh type of tool um and we teach them mindfulness because of our other work in prevention that we can talk about uh later in in which um mindfulness has been helpful and and and also yoga very simple yoga exercises”