FREE Child Anxiety Recovery Worksheet

Finding My Way Back: Small Steps Towards Feeling Stronger

When children experience anxiety, overwhelm, panic, school avoidance or EBSA, confidence can disappear surprisingly quickly.

Parents and educators often ask:

"How do we help confidence come back?"

The answer is rarely through pressure.

Confidence often begins with feeling safe, finding calm, recognising strengths and taking small, manageable steps forward.

This printable worksheet helps children explore:

✔ Places where they feel calm and safe

✔ Activities that help worries feel quieter

✔ Things they have already managed

✔ Evidence of their strengths and resilience

✔ Small brave steps they may be ready to take

✔ Hopes, goals and things they would like to do again

Rather than focusing on what children cannot do, this resource gently encourages them to notice what is already helping and build confidence from there.

Ideal For

• Children experiencing anxiety
• School anxiety and EBSA
• Emotionally based school avoidance
• Overwhelm and stress
• Confidence building
• Emotional wellbeing support
• Parents and carers
• Teachers
• SENCOs
• ELSAs
• Pastoral teams
• Home educators

What's Included?

1 Printable PDF Worksheet

"Finding My Way Back: Small Steps Towards Feeling Stronger"

Designed to complement anxiety recovery, emotional wellbeing and confidence-building work with children.

The Calm Code Approach

This worksheet reflects the same gentle philosophy behind the Calm Code series:

Calm → Safety → Small Successes → Confidence

Children are encouraged to move at their own pace, identify what helps, and recognise that confidence grows through experience rather than pressure.

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A simple, thoughtful resource to support children as they begin rebuilding confidence after anxiety, overwhelm, panic or school avoidance.

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