Meditation for Teens: Tension Melting
When you have an anxiety problem, you often experience a lot of tension in your body.
Our muscles are primed to have a fight/flight/freeze response, meaning that they feel it’s necessary to be tensed. Your muscles are trying to protect you! But instead, they’re wearing you out.
If you’re always tense, and always ready to fight someone, run away, or freeze and clam up, it can feel like your body is in charge of you - rather than you feeling in charge of your body.
If this feels familiar to you, you need a good toolbox. One filled with lots and lots of coping skills.
If you’re ready for some deeper work, you can check out my book, When Anxiety Makes You Angry!
It’s packed with empowering strategies that give you lots of options for cognitive coping, mindfulness skills, problem solving strategies, and identifying how anxiety can be a real problem for you.
In this self-help book written specifically for anxiety-driven anger, I delve REALLY deeply in to all the different coping skills you can use to manage your overwhelming emotions.
But my favorite cluster of relaxation specific activities is MINDFULNESS and meditation.
This week, I’m sharing a new tension melting guided meditation.
Listen below, and feel free to download!
Guided meditation for teens is an important part of anxiety work.
It helps anxious teens connect their brains and bodies and find a sense of calm relaxation.
Want more meditation scripts? Need more relaxation tips for teens?
Do I need teen therapy/does my teen need anxiety therapy?
Meditation is a great tool for anxiety management, but it doesn’t mean you have to just deal with anxiety on your own. You can always reach out to a therapist or counselor to talk more about your anxiety, figure out what else is going on underneath it, and build a really robust coping skills tool box, including meditation.
Anxiety therapy for teens and college students in St. Louis.
Our team of therapists at Compassionate Counseling St. Louis specialize in work with anxious, angry kids, teens, and young adults. We understand that anger is often masking other underlying issues, like anxiety, stress, or even trauma. Our counselings take the time to dig in to what’s going on underneath the surface, and focus on building concrete strategies to help you and your child manage overwhelming emotions.
If you’re interested in learning more, let’s schedule a free phone consultation and chat more.
Kelsey Torgerson Dunn, MSW, LCSW is the author of “When Anxiety Makes You Angry”
She’s also the owner of Compassionate Counseling St. Louis, a therapy practice in St. Louis, MO dedicated to helping kids, teens, and college students with anxiety and anger management issues, and she sees a small caseload of Missouri teens and students. You can learn more about her therapy work, and purchase her book here.
