Misophonia Resources

Cognitive Strategies for Misophonia: Challenging Unhelpful Thinking Patterns

Emotional Acceptance: Letting Yourself Feel Your Feelings

Sound Experiments: Testing out ways to change your reactions to triggers

Changing up the Visuals

This slide deck includes 18 slides showing brief videos of common misophonia triggers, like crunching, chewing, and sniffing, as well as videos showing those sounds paired with another visual that sounds similar (for example, a pencil drawing lines paired with sniff sounds). It includes instructions for conducting a sound experiment to test out if you can experience different reactions to videos showing misophonia triggers using visualization.

Attention Training: Mindfulness of Sound

Thank you to Jane Gregory for this exercise

Testing out New Ways of Coping

This exercise is all about implementing a coping plan for misophonia triggers. They follow a "EAR" plan (please forgive me for the cringe):

1. Explore your thinking: Are there? Check out cognitive strategies for a full 

Taking Back Control (of trigger sounds and your reactions)