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
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)
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