“Milk, milk, milk involves taking a trigger word from whatever repetitive thought you’re having—such as breakup, alone, overwhelmed, foolish—and repeated that word as fast as possible for 30 seconds to two minutes. The technique is called milk, milk, milk because when people practice it with a therapist, the practice word used is milk.
How does the technique work? When you expose yourself over and over to whatever word is triggering your distress, it starts to lose its power in triggering painful memories and becomes just a sound.”