Guided ManoYatra tool

Self-Soothe with 5 Senses

Self-soothe is a DBT distress-tolerance skill in which you deliberately provide each of the five senses with something comforting — a taste, a texture, a sound, a smell, something to look at.

Staying in the Present10 minMAXtext or voice

How it works

It is deliberately ordinary: tea, a warm shower, a specific song, a soft sleeve. The structure matters because in distress nothing comes to mind, so the tool builds you a list in advance, per sense, from things actually available to you. Having the list already written is most of the value.

Grounded in

DBT distress tolerance, Marsha Linehan. Data note: affected by §7.

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