Self-Soothe - the best DBT skill ever

It is past time for us to stop punishing ourselves for being human. It felt like drudgery for me to learn about this skill at first. I did not want any part of taking care of myself and I definitely didn't want an accounting of my self-care. The concept was so foreign to me. But as with all the skills, after a little practice, I got much better at it. It still feels funny that it took me a while to start truly giving myself over to the self-soothe skill.

Who doesn't love a skill that is good for your skin?

Everything in the self-soothe DBT skill is about doing what we love that makes us feel better. Marsha Linehan helps us out by using the 5 senses to help us remember to self-soothe in ways we can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. Our paper dolls help us out with some ideas to practice this skill in the infographic below.

What about you? What are your favorite self-soothing methods? How do you practice the self-soothe skill every day? Do you have stories about how this skill has helped you or when you needed to practice it more? We'd love to hear it.