Urge Surfing Wallet Card · A Pocket Reference for Riding Out Cravings

The moment a craving hits, clients forget everything they know. This wallet card puts the skill back in their hands — small enough for a wallet, durable enough for real life.

Urge surfing is one of the most evidence-based skills in substance use and impulse-control work, but it only helps if clients can access it when the wave is already cresting. This card gives them a visual anchor and three grounding questions to interrupt the automatic reach.

Front · The Wave

A visual map of what an urge actually does — Notice · Don't React · Ride It · Peak · Decline · Release — with the reminder that cravings peak in minutes. You can outlast them.

Back · In the Moment

Three questions that move clients from reaction → awareness → perspective:

• What does this urge feel like in your body right now?
• What is the urge asking you to do?
• What do you know about urges that's true right now?

Specs

• 4 × 2.5" landscape, laminated
• Wet-erase compatible
• Fits standard wallets, phone cases, and planner pockets

Perfect for

Substance use counselors, DBT/CBT practitioners, IOP and residential programs, and harm reduction settings — anywhere clients need a portable skill for moments between sessions.

Clinical approach

Built on mindfulness-based relapse prevention (Bowen, Chawla, Marlatt). The three questions shift the client from insidethe urge to watching the urge — which is where the skill actually lives.

Variants

• 4-pack · $12
• 10-pack · $25

Workbooks stay home. Apps get closed. The tool that gets used is the one already in the client's pocket when the urge hits.