A traditional safety plan  is a simple but powerful tool designed to help you stay grounded and safe when emotions become overwhelming. It outlines your warning signs, your coping skills, your support network, and the steps you can take when things feel too big to manage alone. But many people experience a wide variety of unwanted symptoms—not just crisis-level moments. Because of that, I often use a more approachable, inclusive version in practice: the Support Plan . This to

I’m a real person, and I swear this technique works for me. The trick is pretty simple: Immerse yourself — intentionally — as a distraction. Movies and music can pull you out of an overwhelming emotional moment and drop you into a different world for a little while. When used mindfully , they act as short-term, grounding distractions. Unlike doom-scrolling on social media—which can turn into 17 hours of numbing out—music and movies give your brain a beginning, middle, and end