This episode features the first time I’m including a therapy session! I share my 5th week of doing exposure to traumatic invalidation. Listen as my therapist and I go over my homework from the previous week, dive deep into a memory of invalidation, and then process what came up for me. The big skills I practice are observing and describing, and we get some tears in there too.
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 3 – Wise Mind: States of Mind;
Mindfulness Handout 4 – Taking Hold of Your Mind: “What” Skills;
Emotion Regulation Handout 20 – Taking Care of Your Mind by Taking Care of Your Body (PLEASE);
Other resources used in this episode:
Exposure recording form
Treating Trauma in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: The DBT Prolonged Exposure Protocol (DBT PE) by Melanie S. Harned, PhD, ABPP
- General Handout 4 – What is DBT PE (pg 372);
New York Times – The Woman Defending Harvey Weinstein;
TikTok – @housepurrity re: western psychology;
TikTok – @purpleellaandcoco re: tantrums vs autistic meltdowns;
TikTok – @thejeffreymarsh re: how parents treat their kids;
TikTok – @neurodominos re: Melinda came in hot today;
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