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Real People, Real Skills

A monthly series featuring true, publicly documented stories of people navigating real hardship — and the specific coping skills that helped them through it.

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Real People, Real Skills: She Survived 9/11 and Still Had to Learn How to Accept Her Life

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.

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Real People, Real Skills: The Girl Who Counted Backward From Ten

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.