Coping Skills: Distraction

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Take some time to practice the coping skill of distraction

Shift your mind off your problems for a little while.

Emotional triggers and urges to use happen all around us and inside of us. Developing new, healthy habits and coping mechanisms are crucial for retraining our brain and establishing long-lasting recovery. In this series, recovery coach, Christine Michiaels, teaches us practical examples of various coping strategies. Distraction is one of those strategies. Here are ways that you can practice distraction today.

Published

04/25/2022

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Recovery Management

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Christine Michiaels

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We don’t want to completely avoid our problems, but sometimes we do need to distract ourselves so we can regather our thoughts and get back to a healthy place.

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