What is self-soothing? Self-soothing is the act of calming yourself during intense emotional stress. It helps you regulate overwhelming feelings triggered by a stressor and manage your body's fight-or-flight response. Once a stressor triggers the fight-or-flight response, you may feel jittery, nauseous, numb, or have trouble sleeping. This response can be overwhelming. A self-soothing technique can help by targeting the parasympathetic nervous system, using fluid and repetiti

Emotion-focused coping involves managing your emotional reactions to a stressor, rather than trying to change the stressful situation itself.

Problem-focused coping is ‘a stress-management strategy in which a person directly confronts a stressor in an attempt to decrease or eliminate it’

Loneliness is defined as a state of separation from others and a lack of companionship. However, it is also the experience or feeling of a lack of quality connection from those whose time and company we value, otherwise referred to as social isolation.