A gentle interactive emotional first-aid tool. Name a difficult feeling, place a virtual plaster over it and give yourself permission to return when you're ready. Save your feelings in a personal first-aid box, revisit them at your own pace and explore what you need without pressure.
EMOTIONAL FIRST AID
A Plaster for Now
Sometimes a feeling needs attention, but we are not ready to work through it yet. Give it a name, place a plaster over it, and come back when you feel ready.
SPACE TO BREATHE THERAPY
What needs a plaster today?
You don't need to understand the feeling completely. You can simply acknowledge that something is there.
Choose an emotion
How does this feeling affect you?
Optional. You can leave this blank.
Choose your plaster
My feeling
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Your feeling can be here without needing to be solved.
This can wait. I can come back when I have more room for it.
You have acknowledged something important. Now you can choose to place it in your emotional first-aid box, so it will be there if and when you want to return to it.
Putting on a plaster is not avoiding yourself.
Sometimes it is a choice to pause, rather than force yourself to process something when you're already overwhelmed. The feeling may still be there, and you may need support with it, but it doesn't have to be fully explored in this moment.
My emotional first-aid box
These are feelings you have acknowledged and chosen to leave for another time. Nothing here has a deadline.
There is no correct number of plasters. You can choose what to return to, what you may need support with, and what no longer needs revisiting.
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When you're ready
You can lift a plaster gently. You don't have to take it off all at once, and you don't need to make sense of everything today.
Choose an emotion from your first-aid box to revisit.
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You can leave the plaster where it is.
Let's meet this feeling gently.
You can answer one question, all of them, or none.
Some feelings need more than a plaster.
A difficult feeling may need care, support, time, practical action or a conversation with someone you trust. You can use this tool alongside support from a therapist or healthcare professional; it is not a replacement for urgent help or necessary action to keep yourself safe.
You do not have to work through painful experiences alone.
You get to choose the pace at which you meet your feelings.
