Using DBT Distress Tolerance Skills to Cope With Pain From Grief

How self-soothing techniques are helping me get through a disheartening month

January is my worst month mental health-wise. It’s cold and dark because I live in New England, and it’s also the month my mother was born and passed away. So each time January comes around, I’m like, “F January in its stupid face,” or, “January can kiss my butt,” or, “January isn’t even a real month, who authorized this?”

But recently, I learned about d…