Coaching practices for Urge Surfing Riding the Wave of a Craving After a Loss
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- When a craving hits it feels like it’ll just keep building and building until I cave
- Every craving still feels like the first one, just as overwhelming as ever
- I gave in, and now I’m tearing into myself
- The craving to pour the drink, raid the fridge, send the message lands like it absolutely cannot wait
- When a craving hits it feels like it’ll just keep climbing forever until I give in
Practices that may help
- Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it. - Ride the wave to its peak and down
Watch the urge rise, crest, and fall without acting — like a wave you are surfing.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical
"Riding the wave" is a mindfulness-based urge management technique: rather than acting on an urge or fighting it, you observe it as a rising and falling wave of physical sensation, without doing anything. Urges are time-limited; if not acted upon or fought, they peak and subside. The technique has observational support specifically in addiction contexts (urge surfing), and the underlying mechanism — that urges are temporary physiological events — is consistent with mindfulness and DBT research. - Build urge tolerance over time
Deliberately expose yourself to urges without acting on them — tolerance grows with repeated, successful riding.
Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical - Self-compassion when the wave wins
When you act on the urge before the wave passes, treat the lapse with compassion — not as evidence of permanent failure.
Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical - Urge Surfing: Riding Out the Impulse Without Acting
Treat an urge to act impulsively like a wave — observe it rise and fall without being swept away.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Understand the anatomy of an urge
Learn that urges have a beginning, a peak, and an end — and that acting on or fighting them changes the arc.
Ride the Wave (Urge Management), Made Practical - Surf the urge instead of fighting it
Urges are waves — they rise, peak, and fall without action if you observe rather than fight them.
The Willpower Instinct: What Self-Control Actually Is - Meet the urge without judging yourself
Treat having an urge as normal and human, not as evidence of weakness.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving - Notice the urge as it arises
Catch the craving early, the moment it starts, before it becomes an automatic action.
Urge Surfing: Riding the Wave of a Craving
Related concerns
- Urge Surfing Cravings
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it.
- Urge Surfing Riding The Wave Of A Craving After A Setback
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it.
- Urge Surfing Riding The Wave Of A Craving At Work
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it.
- Urge Surfing Riding The Wave Of A Craving For My Teenager
Urge surfing means treating a craving like a wave — observing it rise, peak, and fall instead of either fighting it or acting on it. Drawn from Alan Marlatt’s mindfulness-based relapse prevention, it works because urges are time-limited and pass on their own when not fed. It is a well-established clinical technique for everyday cravings; for serious addiction, it belongs alongside professional support, not instead of it.
- Know Your Urge Triggers
Know the specific situations, emotions, and states that reliably trigger your urges — so you can intervene before they crest.
Map your urge triggers
- Ride The Wave Urge Management After A Loss
"Riding the wave" is a mindfulness-based urge management technique: rather than acting on an urge or fighting it, you observe it as a rising and falling wave of physical sensation, without doing anything. Urges are time-limited; if not acted upon or fought, they peak and subside. The technique has observational support specifically in addiction contexts (urge surfing), and the underlying mechanism — that urges are temporary physiological events — is consistent with mindfulness and DBT research.
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