Distress Tolerance in Practice: Ride the Wave

Kirby-Reutter

United States Department of Homeland Security

Key Points

  1. Intense feelings are like waves that come and go. Sometimes we try to fight the wave, which can make us feel worse, and sometimes we can choose to ride the wave.
  2. Riding the wave is a distress tolerance exercise that promotes the ability to ride our feelings instead of fighting them.
  3. When riding the feelings we still might get knocked off balance, get wet, or disoriented, but they just come and go. They will not last forever.
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