Skills Video and Audio Recordings

Skills for Thoughts and Feelings

Skills to Manage Emotions

• How thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected (CBT triangle)
• Increasing acitivity (Behavioral Activation)
• Mindfulness - WHAT skills
• Mindfulness - HOW skills
• Meditation (videos, audios)
• Letting thoughts pass by (Leaves on a stream video 1, video 2)
• Acceptance (Passengers on the bus)
• Accepting the situation (Radical acceptance)
• Deep breathing
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation 
• Urge Surfing (video, audio)
• Sleep hygiene

• Doing the opposite of what you feel (Opposite action) 
• Calm down quickly by changing your temperature (TIPP: Temperature
• Release built up emotion (TIPP: Intense exercise)
• Calm down by relaxing your body (TIPP: Paired muscle relaxation) 
• Staying calm through tough situations (Grounding)
• Distracting from distress (video 1, video 2) 
• Tolerating distress (Soothing with the five senses)
• Stop before acting impulsively (STOP)
• Stop fighting your emotions (Drop the rope)
• Stop amplifying negative emotions (Struggle switch)
• Accepting emotions (Expansion)