Coaching practices for Distress Tolerance Skills Before Bed

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’m too wound up to reason my way calm
• This isn’t something I can fix
• I’m too wound up to think or talk my way calmer, and there’s nothing to fix right now
• Right now I’m so far over the edge that talking or reasoning is useless
• My body is in full alarm right now

Practices that may help

1. Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
   Distress tolerance skills, primarily from DBT, are short-term tools for surviving a crisis — intense emotional pain, overwhelming urges, or acute situational stress — without making things worse. They don’t solve the problem; they get you through the peak so problem-solving becomes possible again. DBT as a whole has strong randomized-trial support, particularly for borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation.
2. Self-soothe through the five senses
   Deliberately comfort yourself through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch while the crisis peaks.
   Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
3. IMPROVE the moment
   Use Imagery, Meaning, Prayer, Relaxation, One thing, Vacation, and Encouragement to get through right now.
   Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
4. Self-soothe with the five senses
   Deliberately comfort yourself through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch to ride out distress.
   Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical
5. TIPP for crisis distress tolerance
   Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to drop overwhelming arousal fast.
   Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Made Practical
6. TIPP — change your body chemistry fast
   Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Progressive muscle relaxation to drop overwhelm from the body up.
   Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
7. The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer
   Use a 10-minute afternoon or early evening worry review to protect sleep from nighttime rumination.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
8. Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
   A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
9. Combine TIPP components into a crisis sequence
   For very high arousal, run TIPP as a full sequence — temperature first, then exercise, then breathing, then relaxation.
   TIPP: DBT’s Crisis Skill for Rapidly Lowering Emotional Intensity
10. Use TIPP to make other skills accessible again
    TIPP is not the endpoint — it reduces arousal so cognitive and interpersonal skills become usable.
    TIPP: DBT’s Crisis Skill for Rapidly Lowering Emotional Intensity

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