Marsha Linehan has created a list of commonly held, yet distorted views of emotions. She has summarized this list into two broad …
The Most Powerful DBT Skill
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE is the skill that clients commonly identify as the most life-changing skill for them. The concept is rather simple. We accept …
Walking the Middle Path to Wise Mind
Wise Mind is the balance between emotion mind and reasonable mind. This means balancing other dialectics (opposites) such as doing mind and being …
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Facial Expressions, Mindfulness, and Relating
Dr. Paul Ekman devoted his life to the study of facial expressions and emotions. He was a professor at the University of San Francisco from 1971 to …
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What do dialectics have to do with DBT therapy?
Essentially, "dialectics" means opposites. In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) the concept of dialectics refers to two things that are seemingly …
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Strengthen your defenses
Strengthen your defenses by reducing emotional vulnerability. This means that we take care of ourselves on a daily basis so that we are at our best …