DBT STOP and TIP Skills are essential for mindfulness, mental health and managing your emotions,

Originally posted March 23, 2020. About 98% of our mental activity…the reasons why we do things…is unconscious (Bargh, 2017). ...

Originally posted December 16, 2019. Have a peaceful holiday season, with a side of realism! In May of 2018, Cigna surveyed 20,000...

Originally posted August 6, 2019. You are busy! The office is humming! Things are totally running amok today! The phone is ringing and...

The ABC PLEASE skills are the first floor in the house of happiness. Think of the ABC PLEASE skills as extreme self-care, to help you manag

Originally posted April 9, 2019. A traumatic birth can be physically and emotionally devastating. Social support for those going through...

Originally posted February 19, 2019. Expressive Art: Creating Your Lifeline The expressive art exercise called LifeLine is a positive...

Originally posted January 22, 2019. Joe’s a pretty emotionally balanced person with pretty good boundaries. And still, people got under...

Originally posted January 9, 2019. Happy reading! Thank you to my loving readers for visiting my humble blog! Looking back at the dynamic...

Originally posted November 27, 2018. 6 DBT Skills to Nurture Your Mental Health During the Holiday Rush Lots of us get flustered during...

Originally posted June 26, 2018. Gratitude feeds the white wolf…6 mindful nibbles a day! Almost all days, I habitually remind myself to...

Originally posted June 19, 2018. I wildcrafted dandelion flowers last week. I missed picking the dandelion flowers in my yard! I kept...

Originally posted April 17, 2018. Sharon was experiencing feelings of lack of self-worth and hopelessness and helplessness. Sharon felt...

Originally posted March 29, 2018. What are the chakras? The word chakra literally means wheel or vortex (Eden, 1998). According to yogic...

Originally posted March 27, 2018. Sarah was the witness of an accident where a car struck and instantly killed two pedestrians. She had...

Originally posted February 27, 2018. People ask me to explain craniosacral to them all the time. Craniosacral is your body talking to you...

Originally posted January 23, 2018. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a well researched therapy used to treat...

Updated February 2022 A definition and overview of DBT’s Distress Tolerance can be found here. So, the basic foundation of DBT is to...

Originally posted December 7, 2017. You are Not Alone. You Are Not to Blame. With Help, You Will Feel Better Dr. Susan Giurleo deserves...

Originally posted October 30, 2017. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy used to treat...