Exhibit 1.5-1The OBSERVATIONS Coping Strategy

• Take a moment to just Observe what is happening. Pay attention to your body, your senses, and your environment.
• Focus on your Breathing. Allow your feelings and sensations to wash over you. Breathe.
• Name the Situation that initiated your response. In what way is this situation familiar to your past? How is it different?
• Remember that Emotions come and go. They may be intense now, but later they will be less so. Name your feelings.
• Recognize that this situation does not define you or your future. It does not dictate how things will be, nor is it a sign of things to come. Even if it is familiar, it is only one event.
• Validate your experience. State, at least internally, what you are feeling, thinking, and experiencing.
• Ask for help. You don’t have to do this alone. Seek support. Other people care for you. Let them!
• This too shall pass. Remember: There are times that are good and times that are not so good. This hard time will pass.
• I can handle this. Name your strengths. Your strengths have helped you survive.
• Keep an Open mind. Look for and try out new solutions.
• Name strategies that have worked before. Choose one and apply it to this situation.
• Remember you have survived. You are a Survivor!