Posts Tagged ‘DBT’
Top 10 Ways to Regulate Emotions – Part One
Emotion regulation skills allow us to effectively cope with our emotional reactions. While we cannot always maintain control over what we feel, we have total control over how we choose to respond to those feelings. The first step to gaining greater control over your emotions begins with learning how to recognize emotions and their effects…
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How to Identify Emotional Triggers
Emotional triggers consist of thoughts, feelings, and events that seem to “trigger” an automatic response from us. The word “trigger” is important here, because the idea is that our reaction occurs automatically. It might seem as if the emotional reaction is completely involuntary. The truth is that this reaction, like everything else that we do,…
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Top 10 Ways to Tolerate Distress
Distress. It is impossible to avoid, no matter how charmed your life may be. Emotional pain and distress are an inevitable part of life. The inability to learn how to effectively cope with intense emotion and distress only leads to increased suffering. According to Dr. Marsha Linehan, a world-renowned psychologist credited with the creation of…
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