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.
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.
You don’t have to write about your feelings in a leather-bound notebook by candlelight. Try this instead: every evening, write three sentences. One thing that happened. One thing you noticed. One thing you’re glad about. That’s it. No introspection required. No flowing prose. Just three sentences before you doomscroll. Over time, you’ll have an accidentally …
Pick a routine task — washing dishes, folding laundry, making coffee — and do it at half speed. Feel every plate. Notice the warm water. Fold like each shirt is a ceremony. This is maddening for about 90 seconds, then something shifts. You stop fighting the task and start doing it. Zen teachers have been …
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 …