With finals week soon approaching (as much as we all try to avoid it) there is no better time than now to be thinking about how to cherish your own mental health. Stress, common in almost every college student, at times can feel overwhelming and insurmountable, yet there are ways to manage it. Everyone finds their own niche in coping with the stress that comes along with school, and life in general. Here are fifteen of the many ways of coping with stress that can help us overall become more grounded and centered:

1. Go for a walk.

2. Make yourself a cup of tea

3. Doodle your feelings.

4. Take a bubble bath.

5. Dance it out.

6. Practice breathing slowly.

7. Cry it out.

8. Make a to-do list.

9. Clean your room.

10. Take 10 minutes to stretch.

11. Go to bed early.

12. Light a candle.

13. Call your parents.

14. Exercise.

15. Take the world one day at a time.