Tools For Managing Your Mental Health
If you want to take some steps forward, but don’t want to involve anyone from our team, we totally get it. Strangers are awkward.
So don’t worry, we have a full range of tools that you can do on your own. Anytime, anywhere.
The training options below are affordable, practical, and effective - they are a great way to start your mental health journey.
Self-Assessment
How are you really doing? Take our free self-assessment to get honest with yourself.
It doesn’t give you a score, or assign you to a Harry Potter house, or any of those fancy tricks - but it does give you a moment to truly consider how you’re doing and what you might need.
Duration: 5ish minutes
Cost: Free
Understanding Trauma
If you serve as a guardian, trauma is an unfortunate part of the job. You will see and hear more hard things in a week than some people see in a lifetime.
So what do we do about that? The first step is understanding what trauma is and how to recognize it.
This short video gives some important insights into what trauma is and what you need to consider.
Duration: 7 minutes
Cost: Free
The How-To Series
In order to be a guardian you’ve trained and studied and practiced . . . but there are these annoying little things that we never learn.
How do you talk to your significant other on a hard day? How do you combat burnout? How do you remember how to have fun?
Our How To Series aims to answers those annoying little problems that we commonly hear clients describe.
Duration: Each training is 30 minutes or less
Cost: $12 each
The Milestone Series
Every guardian career has a series of milestones that can be exciting . . . but also come with some specific sources of stress.
And often those stressors are subtle, sneaking up and causing distress before you even know what’s happened.
Our Milestone Series captures the lessons we’ve learned from all of our clients that have moved through the same career paths, helping you get ahead of the stress.
Duration: Each training is 30 minutes or less
Cost: $20 each
Guardian Mental Health 101
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a course that taught you exactly how to protect your mental health?
Well hot-diggity-damn, here you go.
Shannon took what she learned from 1000s of client sessions and turned it into a straightforward, practical set of steps.
The course will teach you how to build a mental health protocol that is specific for your individual needs, all in six easy online lessons.
Duration: Six modules, each is 30 minutes or less
Cost: $99
Relationship Skill-Building
Guardian work can be brutal in your relationships. The shifts, the trauma, the compassion fatigue - it can all start to add up.
If you are feeling distant and disconnected, we want to help. Shannon has taken the key skills that she uses in couples therapy sessions and turned them into a straightforward and practical workbook.
Clients who have followed these steps stated that their connection and communication have improved drastically.
Duration: 4 weeks, 1-2 hours per week
Cost: $49
Compassion Fatigue
Compassion fatigue is the decreasing ability to empathize with and respond to others' suffering. Over time, the emotional strain of constant support can lead to exhaustion, emotional detachment, and numbness. In fact, Shannon’s own compassion fatigue and struggle to find support is one of the reasons Stack of Stones was started in the first place. This brief training will help you understand more about what CF is and how it might be impacting you.
Duration: 8 minutes
Cost: Free
Moral Injury
Moral injury is the emotional pain stemming from actions that conflict with personal values or beliefs, which can happen frequently in guardian roles. Moral injury can be vague and sneaky, so you might not even notice the impact it is having on your mental health.
In this brief training, learn how to recognize and combat the moral injury that may arise in your role.
Duration: 4 minutes
Cost: Free