Information, Strategies, Support and Awareness
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Your exhale is a brake pedal. Most people don’t know this. When you inhale, your heart speeds up slightly. When you exhale, it slows down. This is called respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and it’s been happening your whole life without your permission or awareness. Today you’re going to use it on purpose. Here’s the practice: breathe …
DBT’s Check the Facts skill helps you figure out if your emotion fits the situation — or if it’s responding to an interpretation instead of reality.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While children across America struggle through a mental health crisis, Republican leadership at the state and federal level has systematically pulled the funding that schools desperately need. From Cincinnati to California, this is a political choice — and it demands a political answer. Let’s be clear from the start: the school districts cutting mental health …
As we shift into the hustle and bustle of life in November, with holiday preparations creeping up on us, our stress levels can start to mount. If you’re feeling the weight of the world on your shoulders, it might be time to take a breather – literally! This week’s DBT Skills Spotlight is all about …