"If I go in too soon, will she not learn to self-soothe?"

Even at one month, you can encourage a baby to self-soothe by putting him to sleep before he's actually asleep.

We self-soothe — in this case with the empty calories of all that partisan comfort food.

It's a slippery slope for young men who cannot learn to "self-soothe" and avoid conflict.

Infants first require nurture from caregivers in order to develop the ability to self-soothe.

But sometimes the behavior then evolves into a way to "self-soothe and manage anxiety," said Dow.

When a student dies, litigation seems to be a prevalent way for the family to grieve or to self-soothe.

I discovered I was jumping at every command, instead of allowing her to learn how to self-soothe.

One study finds high levels of cortisol in babies who are left to self-soothe

However, learning the abilities to self-soothe and self-regulate are

The beauty is if you train your child to self-soothe, you are much less likely to do crying-it-out sleep training.

Leaving my baby to cry and self-soothe

The introjection of the good breast provides a location where one can hide from persecution, an early step in developing a capacity to self-soothe.

The rageaholic has to have his girlfriend soothe him when he is angry, rather than learning to self-soothe and deal with his rage.

As adults, many of us self-soothe with junk food, a glass (or two) of wine, maybe some mindless TV.

The inference was that leaving a "signalling" (crying) baby to "self-soothe" or "cry it out" might be the most sensible response.

Wake and Sleep: The concept here is to teach babies how to self-soothe and calm themselves back to sleep.

His method became known as "ferberizing" and became synonymous with tough love: letting babies "cry it out" and self-soothe.

Cry-it-out is a sleep training method that advocates letting your baby cry (or the more innocuous-sounding "self-soothe") for varying periods of time before offering comfort.

Lynette wants Paige to self-soothe herself, but Susan insists on rocking baby Paige to sleep.

"She comes over and shakes her finger in the baby's face and says, 'You have to learn to self-soothe,' " Ms. Lazure said.

When the system is overwhelmed by traumatic stimuli, it may be that the ability to utilize the ventral vagal system to calm and self-soothe is lost.

Learning to self-soothe, to stop self-harming, acting out and looking to others to take care of me, which effectively ended my projective identification and transference onto others.

Try looking for ways to self-soothe that don't involve food — at a family gathering, for instance, you could blow off steam by playing games or running around with your little nieces and nephews.