The Anxiety Suite
What Is The Anxiety Suite?
86% of girls in Ireland report that they sometimes feel low, anxious or stressed or that their mental health is not good. We get it! That's why we want to have open and honest conversations with people who have experienced this in their own lives. This is why we have created our Anxiety Suite with Molly Erin Hayes and Tara Rafter, with support from our friends at VHI.
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Are you a teacher and would like to use this as a resource in your class?
We have you covered! We have created ready-to-use lesson plans to support this video, which align with the Junior Cycle Wellbeing Framework, Junior Cycle curriculum and the Bí Cineálta policy.
Episode 1:
Anxiety 101: When Molly Met Tara
In episode 1, we meet Molly and Tara and talk about their own experiences with anxiety. We learn about the difference between stress and anxiety, when to seek help, how anxiety manifests itself in our bodies and how we can learn to live with anxiety, rather than fighting it.
This is a beautifully authentic conversation, and we hope you feel as though this is a safe space so you can know that you are never alone.
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Molly and Tara have the opportunity to sit and chat about their own life experiences and learnings with stress and anxiety in the hope of opening up some honest conversations on these subjects.
The more we normalise and familiarise ourselves with topics like this the easier the communication becomes.
Just so you know, this conversation is not a substitute for seeing your GP or mental health professional.
Please speak to a trusted adult if you need any support.
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Tara and Molly speak about their mental health glam squad.
As a class group, can you list 10 different groups of people in your lives that could form part of a mental health glam squad?
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In this conversation, Tara explains the "then what?" tool.
Think about something that has you feelling little overwhelmed lately, and break it down using the "then what?" tool.
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