
FEEL YOUR BEST SELF: CHILLAX IN MY HEAD
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If you’re feeling overwhelmed, pretend to be in a place where you feel happy and relaxed.
Learn strategies for self-soothing that can help you calm down when feeling overwhelmed. Pretend to be in a place where you feel happy and relaxed.
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FEEL YOUR BEST SELF: CHILLAX IN MY HEAD
Clip: 7/8/2024 | 5m 48sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
Learn strategies for self-soothing that can help you calm down when feeling overwhelmed. Pretend to be in a place where you feel happy and relaxed.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[bright upbeat music] - Ice cream, ice cream.
I love ice cream.
I'll take a trip down to mint chocolate chip.
So delicious.
And it's my favorite color, green!
[CJ and Nico laugh] - You always get mint chocolate chip, CJ.
I think I'm gonna try cookie dough today.
- Oh.
- Come on.
[bright music] - Welcome to Scoopee's, where we have 42 different varieties of ice cream flavors.
Would you like to try today's special, rainbow caramel swirl?
- No thank you.
I'm gonna get chocolate chip cookie dough, please.
- Very popular choice.
And for you?
- May I please have a scoop of the mint chocolate chip, please?
- I'm terribly sorry, but we're all out of mint chocolate chip.
[CJ gasps] You can try one of our other flavors.
Double chocolate.
Strawberry.
Chocolate chip cookie dough.
Vanilla chocolate chip cookie flow.
Brownie batter.
- Oh dear.
So many choices.
42 different flavors.
That's too many options.
I really wanted mint chocolate chip.
I don't know what else I would like.
If I try one of the other flavors, I might not like it as much, and then I'd waste an ice cream day, and then I won't get to have ice cream again until the next time we come to Scoopee's, and who knows when that will be?
Weeks, months, years.
Mint chocolate chip is my favorite.
I can't just pick something else.
I need to pick the perfect ice cream flavor that is just good enough, but not too good.
But how could I possibly pick the perfect one when there are 42 different flavors?
There's too many flavors!
How will I choose?
- CJ?
- Uh oh.
Uh oh.
- CJ, are you okay?
- Oh.
- What's wrong?
- Oh, Nico, there are just too many choices.
I can't pick.
[wails] - Oh, CJ, I know how you feel.
It's kinda like when I start a new painting, I'm just sitting there, staring at this blank piece of paper, with so many ideas.
So before my feelings get too heavy, I stop to chillax in my head.
- Chillax in your head?
- Yeah!
When my feelings are weighing me down, I think about a happy place.
I pretend to go there and chillax.
- Huh.
What kind of happy place?
- Hmm.
Well, everyone is different.
So your happy place might not be the same as mine.
My happy place is in the reading corner at the library.
Hmm.
I feel comfy and safe there.
It's quiet and I'm surrounded by books.
When I chillax in my head, I feel my best self.
- Oh, I see.
- Let's try it together, CJ.
Where's a place that makes you feel your best?
Relaxed and happy?
- Huh.
Maybe when I'm sitting on the grass at the park near the end of my street.
- Hmm.
Can you imagine you're there?
- Let's see.
Yes, I can!
- [Nico] Awesome!
What do you see at the park?
- I can see the swing set and the slide.
- [Nico] Anything else?
- I feel the soft grass.
[sniffs] Oh, smell the fresh air and see that sunny sky.
Ah, it is so relaxing.
Ah.
- CJ.
CJ, you did it!
- I did?
- Mm-hmm.
- I did.
Ha, ha.
I chillaxed in my head.
- Mm-hmm.
- Ha.
Ha.
[cashier clears their throat] Oh.
- Excuse me, but whenever you're ready to order.
- Yes, I am ready.
I will try the special rainbow caramel swirl.
- Excellent choice.
- It was so hard for me to choose a new ice cream, but Nico showed me how to chillax in my head, and you can try it, too.
The next time that your feelings are heavy, just close your eyes and imagine your favorite place to hang out and chillax.
It'll help you feel your best self.
Thank you.
- Thank you.
Mm, ha.
- Ha.
- To the park?
- To the park, with ice cream and Nico.
Now that's chillaxing.
- Mm-hmm!
[laughs] Mm!
- Mm!
[CJ and Nico laugh]
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