During this episode, I’m pretty annoyed at the experience of doing therapy and I’m not shy about showing it. So I observe and describe what it feels like to do exposure therapy. In listening back to the main recording, I have an epiphany: part of what makes exposure so painful is that I’m judging my own thoughts as I’m having them. And like a bull in a China shop, I wreak a lot of havoc on myself without meaning to. Join me as I peel back the layers of my judgements.

Helpful resources from this episode:

DBT references:

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets – online pdf version;

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets – buy the manual from a Black-owned book store!

DBT handouts used in this episode:

Mindfulness Handout 5 – Taking Hold of Your Mind: “How” Skills;

• Nonjudgementally;

Emotion Regulation Handout 6 – Ways to Describe Emotions;

Distress Tolerance Handout 11 – Radical Acceptance;

Distress Tolerance Handout 15 – Mindfulness of Current Thoughts;

Other resources used in this episode:

Tiktok: video from @ayandastood

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