Self-soothing strategies are skills that will help you calm your mind and body. Connecting with you higher power or spirituality can be very calming. If you have a place of worship and it calms you to be there, then go there. Connect with your spirituality through prayer or meditation, focusing … [Read more...]
Self-Soothing with Sight
Self-soothing strategies are skills that will help you calm your mind and body. So for visual self-soothing strategies you can thumb through magazines and find pictures of people, places and things that evoke calm feelings within you and then make a collage of them and then when you need to evoke … [Read more...]
Self-Soothing with Sound
Self-soothing strategies are skills that will help you calm your mind and body. There are lots of options these days for listening to soothing sounds. Since most of us have our smart phones on us at all times, there is always access to your music or other apps that produce soothing sounds. … [Read more...]
Self-Soothing with Smell
Self-soothing strategies are skills that will help you calm your mind and body. When I work with my clients who have a history of chaos, abuse or neglect in their family growing up, they often did not learn how to sooth themselves in a healthy fashion. That's why it's so important in the beginning … [Read more...]