Finding the Middle Path (Be Drama Free Through DBT!)

In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance skills with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also discuss how to incorporate these skills in the workplace and some of the challenges you might face when teaching the skills to teenagers. Happy listening!

In this episode, we continue our journey in acceptance with Turning the Mind and Willingness over Willfulness. We also explore how to incorporate these skills into the workplace and the challenges you might face when teaching the skills to teenagers. Happy listening!

In this episode, we learn about the optional responses to a serious problem coming into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: Radical Acceptance! This version is voice only, with no background music.

In this episode, we talk about the 5 optional responses when a serious problem comes into your life, which leads us to the skill for the episode: radical acceptance! Also, I got a request to offer episodes without the background music for those that find it too distracting. If you start seeing the episodes release twice, that's the difference. Enjoy!

We continue our journey through distress tolerance skills with IMPROVE and Self-soothe. IMPROVE is used to make each moment better and can be used when in distress or as a preventative measure. Self-soothe involves using your 6 senses to calm yourself and can also be used in distress or as a preventative measure.

In this episode, we start learning skills from the distress tolerance module. This module is made up of two types of skills: crisis survival and distress tolerance. We kick it off with the ACCEPTS skill, used for distracting with Wise Mind, and the TIPP skill, used to reduce strong emotional arousal.

In this episode, we learn how to change the behavioral component of an emotion by taking opposite action. We'll talk about emotions and urges, the opposite action approach, get ourselves an easy new acronym, and learn how to tell if an emotion "fits the facts" or not!

We continue our journey in emotion regulation with ABC PLEASE, to reduce vulnerability to emotional mind, and a skill taken from Alcoholics Anonymous, HALT, to take a mindful moment and address possible vulnerabilities that may lead to unhealthy decisions.

Learn how to use mindfulness to surf your emotions and urges, how to surf at work, and tips for helping teenagers learn how to surf. 

Learn the benefits of emotion regulation, the DBT model of emotions, and how the model of emotions relates to you and the teens you work with.

Learn how to access your Wise Mind using the What and How skills and discover the difficulties a teenager might face while trying to learn and practice these skills. 

Over the summer, I did a virtual presentation for the Yurok Tribe about using DBT to deal with grief. It was tailored for native youth but the information can be helpful for everyone so I thought I'd post it. This episode is probably best enjoyed on YouTube (so you can see the slides and my lovely face), so if you have the time, check it out on there. Enjoy!

Learn a little about dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and using it all when working with teens. *This is my first try and it is quite obvious that I'm working off a PowerPoint. The video form will be available at some point if you're a visual person* one more thing, I forgot the word "disorder" in substance use disorder professional. I'm not a professional substance user. Just had to clear that up!