While doing this week’s exposure assignment (reading my parents’ prayer newsletters), I have a ton of disgust come up.  I feel nauseated and generally ill as I practice radical acceptance to all the body sensations, emotions, and thoughts that come up.  It's a roller coaster of judgements, stomach gurgles, and a fair amount of repetition.  Acceptance isn’t a one-and-done proposition, so this is a long one.

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 4 – Taking Hold of Your Mind: “What” Skills;

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

• Nonjudgmentally;

Distress Tolerance Handout 5 – Pros and Cons;

Distress Tolerance Handout 11 – Radical Acceptance;

Distress Tolerance Handout 11A – Radical Acceptance: Factors That Interfere;

Distress Tolerance Handout 11B – Practicing Radical Acceptance Step by Step;

Distress Tolerance Handout 14 – Half-Smiling and Willing Hands;

• Willing Hands;

Emotion Regulation Handout 6 – Ways to Describe Emotions;

• Disgust;

Other resources used in this episode:

Exposure recording form

• Blank version
• Version filled out in this episode

Mayo Clinic: Definition of depersonalization/derealization

Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders) by Marsha M. Linehan, PhD, ABPP

• Characteristics of Invalidating Environments, and Consequences of Invalidating Environments (pgs 49-52)

Box breathing video

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