Coping Skills: Self-Soothing

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Take some time to practice the coping skill of self-soothing

Bring yourself back into the moment anytime you feel anxiety or worry within your life.

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. Self-soothing is one of those strategies. Here are ways that you can practice self-soothing today.

Published

04/27/2022

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Recovery Management

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Christine Michiaels

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Another way to self-soothe is the “5,4,3,2,1” grounding activity. When you get extremely overwhelmed, you can look around and find five things that you can see, four things you can feel, three things you can hear, two that you can smell, and one that you can touch. It really does bring you back into the moment and give you that time to balance yourself.

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