One of the skills that helps build a life that's worth living in the long-term is identifying one's values. And I hate doing it. Ergo why it's this week's exposure therapy assignment. I go through a couple questions designed to help me imagine what my life might look like when I'm acting from my values. I grumble about it, but I do it anyway.

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;

• Nonjudgmentally;

Emotion Regulation Handout 5 – Model for Describing Emotions (alternate version: E Wheel);

Emotion Regulation Handout 11 – Figuring out Opposite Actions;

• Shame;

Emotion Regulation Handout 14 – Overview: Reducing Vulnerability to Emotion Mind – Building a Life Worth Living;

Emotion Regulation Handout 17 – Accumulating Positive Emotions: Long Term

Other resources used in this episode:

Wikipedia: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy;

Book: "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy" by Steven C. Hayes PhD, with Spencer Smith;

The Confidence Gap from The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris;

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Helpful resources from this episode

• Practicing Radical Acceptance - Distress Tolerance Handout 11b - Practicing Radical Acceptance Step by Step
• Dialectics - Interpersonal Effectiveness Handout 14 – Overview: Walking the Middle Path