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Mindfulness Activities & Worksheets

Practical mindfulness — animated breathing, body-scan walkthroughs, and grounding tools that work for clients who don’t love sitting still.

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CBTDBT

Circles of Control

Sort worries into what you can control, influence, or let go. The #1 anxiety management activity made interactive.

Ages 6–16Free
Clinical: Anxiety management · Locus of control · ACT
Open activity
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SomaticCBT

Body Map Check-in

Place colored dots on a body silhouette to show where feelings live physically. No words required.

Ages 5–16Free
Clinical: Somatic awareness · Emotion identification · Body-based processing
Open activity
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Play therapySomatic

Virtual Sand Tray

A digital sand tray: place miniature figures in a scene to express what words can't. One of the most projective tools in play therapy.

Ages 4–16Free
Clinical: Projective expression · Symbolic communication · Trauma processing
Open activity
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DBT

Urge Surfing

An urge is a wave — it builds, crests, and falls. A 3-minute timer with a rising-and-falling wave to ride it out without acting on it.

Ages 12–18Free
Clinical: Urge tolerance · Mindfulness-based relapse prevention
Open activity
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DBT

TIPP Skills

Four fast physiological resets for crisis-level emotion: cold temperature, intense exercise, paced breathing, paired muscle relaxation. Each runs on a timer.

Ages 12–18Free
Clinical: Distress tolerance · Crisis survival skills · Autonomic regulation
Open activity
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DBTSomatic

5-4-3-2-1 Grounding

Five things you see, four you feel, three you hear, two you smell, one you taste. A staircase out of a panic moment.

Ages 8–18 + adultsFree
Clinical: Anxiety · Panic · Dissociation · Grounding
Open activity
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SomaticDBT

Window of Tolerance

Map your hyperarousal, regulated, and hypoarousal zones — and the cues that tell you which one you're in.

Ages 13–18 + adultsFree
Clinical: Trauma-informed · Polyvagal · Affect regulation
Open activity
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Somatic

Body Mapping

Color-code where activation, calm, numbness, and pain show up in your body. The map is the conversation starter.

Ages 13–18 + adultsFree
Clinical: Somatic awareness · Trauma-informed · Affect regulation
Open activity
SomaticPlay therapy

Calm-Down Jar

Shake the jar. Watch the glitter swirl, then slowly settle. Your thoughts do the same thing.

Ages 4–12Free
Clinical: Anxiety · Co-regulation · Mindfulness
Open activity
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Somatic

Polyvagal Ladder

Three nervous-system states — safe-and-social, fight-or-flight, shutdown. Where are you on the ladder?

Ages 14–18 + adultsFree
Clinical: Polyvagal · Trauma-informed · Affect regulation
Open activity
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DBTCBT

Feelings Thermometer

An interactive thermometer for rating distress intensity. Simple, visual, and intuitive.

Ages 4–12Free
Clinical: Distress rating · Emotion regulation · SUDS scaling
Open activity
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CBTRapport

Gratitude Garden

Grow a garden by naming things you are grateful for. Each gratitude plants a flower.

Ages 5–16Free
Clinical: Positive psychology · Negativity bias counterbalance · Savoring
Open activity