How to Manage Difficult Emotions: TIP Skills
When we are dealing with intense and difficult emotions, it can be hard to even think about what you can do to help manage them. TIP skills are a great Distress Tolerance skill to help increase your ability to navigate a crisis without making it worse. In this blog I’ll review Distress Tolerance, TIP skills, and share pointers for how to best use TIP skills when you are in an emotional crisis.
Cultivating Queer and Trans Joy in 2025
The start of 2025 has been chaotic, frightening, and dark for queer and trans people. Queer and Trans joy is necessary for us to be able to survive and resist current attacks on LGBTQ+ rights and identities. In this post I will explore joy, why it is necessary at this time for the queer and trans community and share ways to cultivate joy.
Self-Care at Your Fingertips: How to Make a Self-Care Kit
A self-care kit helps you to keep options for self-care and coping all in one place to decrease decision fatigue and overwhelm when trying to engage in effective coping. Learn how to make and effectively use a self-care kit in 5 easy steps to help combat feelings of anxiety, depression, and stress.