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What is distress tolerance?
A person's ability to manage an emotional incident without feeling overwhelmed.
What is Wise Mind?
It refers to the balance between the reasonable and emotional halves.
Being able to recognize and respect feelings while responding in rational manner.
What is self-soothe?
What is improve the moment?
It is a skill that replaces negative events with more positive ones.
What is creative outlet?
It is a skill about using your emotional energy to be creative.
Breaks are meant to be ______ and _______.
Planned and temporary.
What are the two halves of Wise mind?
Emotional mind and Reasonable Mind.
What are the senses that go into self-soothing?
Vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
What is an example of imagery?
Ex. Imagining yourself being at a beach.
What is an example of creative outlets?
What happens when you continue to avoid a situation or problem?
It can cause more problems to come up. It can cause more emotions to build up.
Why is it important to know how to balance the emotional mind and reasonable mind?
If acting on the emotional mind, you are more likely to respond ineffectively to a crisis situation and/or create more problems.
Why might is be important to know how to self-soothe?
It is helpful because, there may not always be people available to help you co-regulate and more.
What do the letters of "IMPROVE" stand for? Name two.
I - Imagery
M - Meaning
P - Prayer
R - Relaxation
O - One thing at a Time
V - Vacation
E - Encouragement
Who can use the creative outlet?
Everyone! You do not have to be a skills artist, it is important to find an activity that works for you.
What are two skills that we discussed?
Wise Mind Accepts,
Self-soothe,
Improve the Movement,
Creative Outlet
What is Wise Mind Accepts? Name two
It is often known as "distract".
A - Activities
C - Contributing
C - Comparisons
E - Emotions
P - Push Away
T - Thoughts
S - Sensations
Give example of what you can do with each sense.
Stargazing, listening to music, using aromatherapy oils, eating a sour candy, slime.
Why might focusing on "one thing at a time" be helpful?
Multitasking can be overwhelming.
The creative outlet is meant to be used to take ________ off of a crisis temporarily.
Focus