SELF-SOOTHE WITH THE FIVE SENSES: A DBT SKILL TO MANAGE HOLIDAY STRESS
By Stacey Schmitt, MSW, LICSW The holiday season can be bittersweet. It is a time that offers warmth, celebration, and connection, but may also bring added stress, tension, and pressure. Balancing work demands, expectations around family obligations, and personal needs is often challenging. For some, it may impact mental health & wellness. An effective tool that can help with those moments is a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy distress tolerance skill called Self-Soothing with the Five Senses ....