“Coping” with Coping Skills
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“Coping” with Coping Skills
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In the first episode of 2026, Laura and Bridget take a lovingly skeptical look at the idea of “coping skills”...what we’re taught they should look like, why so many of them fail us, and what actually helps when life feels tender, overwhelming, or just plain unmanageable. Set in that disorienting space between Christmas and New Year’s, coping skills are on the top of their minds.
They unpack how coping skills can morph into another form of self-pressure, especially in therapy culture and productivity culture, where “doing the right thing” can override what our bodies are actually asking for. From sensory regulation to the radical permission to do nothing, they explore the difference between caring for ourselves and controlling ourselves (and how often we confuse the two).
Warm, honest, and subversive, this episode is for anyone who’s ever felt like they were “failing” at coping. It offers a gentler reframe: that the skills that actually work aren’t always pretty, impressive, or Instagrammable. Instead, they’re the ones that help you stay with yourself when everything else feels like too much.