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Picture this. You’re sitting on the edge of your kid’s bed, reading them a bedtime story. Your voice is doing the voices. Your eyes are tracking the words. From the outside, it looks like a perfect,...
Read moreYou have a crystal ball in your head. It won’t give you lottery numbers or tell you exactly what your boss is going to say in tomorrow’s meeting. But if you’re honest with yourself, you already have...
There’s a week or two each spring when the world changes faster than you can keep up with. The branch outside your window that was bare on Monday has buds by Thursday. The air smells different,...
Most DBT skills take some explaining. You hear TIPP or opposite action for the first time and you need a walkthrough. GIVE is different. When someone describes it, be gentle, act interested, validate...
If you’ve ever started DBT, you probably remember the moment your therapist handed you a diary card for the first time. A grid of emotions, urges, and skills. Columns for every day of the week. Maybe...
There’s a running joke in DBT circles: the PLEASE skill is one of the most important tools in the entire framework, and nobody can remember what the letters stand for. Not on their first try, anyway....
There’s a moment in every difficult experience where you hit a wall. Not the difficulty itself, but the resistance to it. The voice that says, “This shouldn’t be happening. This isn’t fair. I can’t...
You splashed cold water on your face before a difficult phone call. You took three slow breaths in a parking lot. You noticed an urge, named it silently, and let it pass. None of these moments felt...
You open the app and realize it’s been three days since your last entry. Maybe four. A familiar little voice pipes up: Well, I already broke the streak. What’s the point now? You close the app....
Some days, the idea of “working on yourself” feels enormous. Like you need a breakthrough, a revelation, a complete overhaul of how you think and feel. But DBT teaches something quieter and,...
There’s something almost magical that happens when you write something down. The thought that was swirling formlessly in your mind suddenly becomes concrete, visible, real. You can look at it from...
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