Information, Strategies, Suppport and Awareness
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Neuroscience has a very fancy term for something your kindergarten teacher already knew: name it to tame it. Dr. Dan Siegel coined the phrase. The research behind it is solid: when you put a name to an emotion, activity in the amygdala — the brain’s alarm system — decreases. The emotion doesn’t disappear. But it …
The DBT TIPP skill changes your body chemistry fast when emotions take over. Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, Paired muscle relaxation — here’s how to use it.
You’ve been told to do a body scan. You’ve fallen asleep every time. This one’s different. The classic body scan — lie down, close your eyes, slowly move your attention from toes to head — is genuinely useful. It’s also genuinely easy to abandon after thirty seconds when your brain decides it has better things …
Radical Acceptance is a DBT distress tolerance skill — not giving up, not approval, just stopping the war with reality. Here’s how it works.
Miosotys Santiago survived childhood trauma, a psychiatric hospitalization, and narrowly escaped Tower One on 9/11. What eventually helped wasn’t strength. It was acceptance.
One minute a day. You have it. You’ve spent longer than that staring at your refrigerator hoping new food would appear. Set a timer. Sit down. Close your eyes. Just notice breathing — not control it, just notice it. When thoughts arrive (and they will, loudly, with opinions), nod at them and return to the …
Wise Mind is a core DBT skill — the quiet intersection of your emotions and your logic. Here’s what it feels like and how to access it.
Box breathing. Four counts in, four counts hold, four counts out, four counts hold. It’s used by Navy SEALs, surgeons, and people who are absolutely losing it before a first date. The reason it works is annoyingly simple: slow breathing activates your parasympathetic nervous system and signals to your body that the tiger is, in …
At 13, Hannah’s anxiety was destroying her friendships and her family. DBT gave her something no one had before: a way to actually interrupt the flood. This is how it started.
We’re living through a particularly heavy moment. Tariff uncertainty, inflation that won’t fully let go, a job market that feels frozen, political division that has seeped into family dinners and social feeds — it’s a lot. And if you’re feeling it in your chest, your sleep, or your patience, you’re not alone. The American Psychological …