Powerful and evidence-based dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help you heal from traumas, balance emotions, and feel safe in the present moment.

If you've experienced chronic, multiple, or ongoing instances of trauma, you may be experiencing complex post-traumatic stress disorder, or CPTSD--and one-size-fits-all treatment methods just aren't enough. In this evidence-based workbook, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert Sheri Van Dijk combines cutting-edge research and evidence-based skills to help you feel safer and more stable, and recognize and reconcile traumas, so you can take charge of your life.

Based in DBT, polyvagal theory, and other proven-effective modalities, this powerful and accessible workbook will help you process and manage intense emotions, free yourself from self-destructive behaviors, and feel more stable--and safe--in the present. You'll also find customizable skills to help you:

• Overcome hypervigilance, psychic numbing, and avoidance
• Recognize and eliminate dissociation as a survival instinct
• Minimize the toll your traumas are taking on your physical health
• Build and maintain healthy relationships
• Work through distress as it arises--before it reawakens trauma
• Find meaning and purpose in your life
  

What happened to you in your past wasn't your fault, and it doesn't have to define your future. Drawing on the best practices of DBT and polyvagal theory, this vital workbook will help you begin healing and reclaim wholeness.

Originally developed for the treatment of borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, has rapidly become one of the most popular and most effective treatments for all mental health conditions rooted in out-of-control emotions. However, there are limited resources for psychologists seeking to use DBT skills with individual clients. In the tradition of ACT Made Simple, DBT Made Simple provides clinicians with everything they need to know to start using DBT in the therapy room.

The first part of this book briefly covers the theory and research behind DBT and explains how DBT differs from traditional cognitive behavioral therapy approaches. The second part focuses on strategies professionals can use in individual client sessions, while the third section teaches the four skills modules that form the backbone of DBT: core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. The book includes handouts, case examples, and example therapist-client dialogue--everything clinicians need to equip their clients with these effective and life-changing skills.

Take charge of your emotions, take charge of your life Now fully revised and updated, this workbook offers proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills to help you find emotional balance and live the life you want.

Let's face it: life gives you plenty of reasons to get angry, sad, scared, and frustrated--and those feelings are okay. But sometimes it can feel like your emotions are taking over, spinning out of control with a mind of their own. To make matters worse, these overwhelming emotions might be interfering with school, causing trouble in your relationships, and preventing you from reaching your goals and enjoying your teen years.

Now a teen self-help classic, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens has already helped thousands of teens take charge of their emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills. This fully revised and updated second edition provides even more strategies for managing difficult feelings, and includes new information on how to accept your emotions, body-based practices for finding calm, and tips to help you identify the things in life that make you feel happy and fulfilled.

This book offers easy techniques to help you:

• Stay calm and mindful in times of crisis
• Effectively manage out-of-control emotions
• Reduce the pain of intense emotions
• Get along with family and friends

If you're ready to take control of your emotions, be the best version of you, and reach your goals, this workbook has everything you need to get started today.

In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk--author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens--offers powerful tools based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you regulate your emotions so you can build better relationships with your parents, friends, and peers.
Do you ever feel like your emotions are out of your control? Is it hard for you to make friends, get a date, or get along with your parents? You aren't alone. For some people, good relationships seem to come easily. But if you are like many others, you may need a little help. This book offers evidence-based strategies you can use to take control of your emotions and reactions in order to respond effectively to peer pressure, bullying, cyberbullying, and gossip, allowing you to navigate the many social issues that make these years so challenging.
This book outlines three core skills to help you manage your emotions and create better relationships. First, you'll discover how mindfulness can help you face each life experience with awareness and acceptance. Second, you'll find more effective ways of communicating with others so you can develop healthier, more balanced relationships. Finally, you'll learn powerful skills to regulate your emotions so you don't end up taking things out on the people you care about. With these combined skills, you'll learn how to act in healthier ways so you don't end up pushing people away.
Like most teens, you want to make and keep friends. You also want to date And you'd probably like to have a good relationship with your parents. This book will give you the skills to reach these goals and live a happier, more fulfilling life--well beyond your teen years. Why not get started now?

Based in proven-effective DBT, a take-anywhere guide to help you balance emotions and stay cool--even when life feels intense.

No matter how #blessed you are, sometimes life can feel downright overwhelming. Whether it's a breakup or divorce, the loss of a job, or even a global pandemic, you may need a little extra help managing the difficult emotions that can arise when things are not going so great. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a proven-effective and evidence-based treatment that can help you find balance and improve your ability to handle adversity without losing control and acting destructively.

This potent and portable guide focuses on one of the core skills of DBT: distress tolerance. With this book, you'll learn that you are strong enough to weather life's storms. You can handle whatever stress or setback life throws your way. And you can face your own difficult thoughts and feelings head on--without avoidance, anger, or despair.

Life happens. But you don't have to get pulled under. With Distress Tolerance Made Easy, you'll learn tons of tips and tricks to help you keep your cool--even when those emotional triggers strike. Why not keep a copy on your nightstand, in your glove box, or on your work desk? You never know when you'll need it!

Now a teen self-help classic, Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens has already helped more than 150,000 teen readers take charge of their emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills. This fully revised and updated second edition offers teens even more strategies for managing difficult feelings, and includes new material on acceptance, overcoming shame, the role of values in emotion regulation, body-based practices for finding calm, and more.

Even if you've just been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, it's likely that you've been living with it for a long time. You've probably already developed your own ways of coping with recurring depression, the consequences of manic episodes, and the constant, uncomfortable feeling that you're at the mercy of your emotions. Some of these methods may work; others might do more harm than good. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder will help you integrate your coping skills with a new and effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) plan for living well with bipolar disorder.

The four DBT skills you'll learn in this workbook-mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness-will help you manage your emotional ups and downs and minimize the frequency and intensity of depressive and manic episodes. By using this book in conjunction with medication and professional care, you'll soon experience relief from your bipolar symptoms and come to enjoy the calm and confident feeling of being in control.

-Learn mindfulness and acceptance skills-Cope with depressive and manic episodes in healthy ways-Manage difficult emotions and impulsive urges-Maintain relationships with friends and family members

When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you're losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight If you find it difficult to understand, express, and process intense emotions--and most of us do--this book is for you.

Calming the Emotional Storm is your guide to coping with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from dialectical behavior therapy. This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to change the way you respond to stressful situations. By practicing these skills, you can stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help you weather any emotional storm.

This book will teach you how to:

- Establish a balanced life for an everyday sense of well-being
- Let go of unwanted worries and fears
- Become better at accepting yourself and others
- Work through a crisis without letting emotions take over

Self-harm is a serious problem with potentially long-term or even deadly consequences. From the author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, this workbook outlines the four essential skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help teens regulate emotions, make behavioral changes, and cultivate resilience. Using the evidence-based tools in this guide, teen readers can put an end to self-harming behaviors and build the life they truly want.

From the best-selling author of Don't Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens, this cutting-edge workbook offers readers struggling with emotion regulation quick, in-the-moment skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to not only rescue themselves from out-of-control emotions, but also avoid becoming emotionally overwhelmed in the first place.

Fast-acting emotional rescue tools grounded in proven-effective DBT to help you find quick relief from intense thoughts and feelings, as well as core emotion regulation skills to help you stay balanced.

Do you have difficulty managing your emotions? If you're like most people, the answer is most likely an emphatic, Yes! Dealing with emotions is challenging, and it's easy to misunderstand those feelings--especially in the heat of the moment when it feels like they're ganging up on you from all directions. Getting hijacked by your emotions can leave you feeling helpless--with nowhere to go and nothing or no one to help you. If only you had tools at the ready to extinguish the turmoil before it starts raging.

In this breakthrough workbook, renowned dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert Sheri Van Dijk delivers fast-acting emotional rescue tools that you can put into practice right now to effectively manage your feelings and prevent meltdowns. You'll learn essential skills for staying calm when things feel overwhelming--including mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Putting these newfound skills into practice will help you take charge of your emotions, reduce pain and suffering, focus more on positive feelings, and improve your overall quality of life.

Dealing with emotions is tricky; the good news is you no longer have to go it alone. If you're tired of trying and failing to find balance--and want fast relief from the emotional storm--this workbook has you covered.

This emotional quick-rescue kit will help you:

• Understand and identify your emotions
• Reduce emotional reactivity and mood swings
• Increase self-awareness and self-compassion
• Get unstuck from unhealthy thinking and behavior patterns
• Find balance when emotions are too intense

Put an end to self-harming behaviors--once and for all.

Do you cut or self-harm? Do you feel like it gives you a sense of control in a world where you so often feel helpless and powerless? Do you do it to distract from emotional pain, or just feel something other than total numbness? There's a long list of reasons why you may self-harm. But regardless of the reason or the method, the truth is that self-harm is a destructive--and potentially deadly--way to deal with emotional pain. Fortunately, there are healthier and safer ways to manage your emotions.

In The DBT Skills Workbook for Teen Self-Harm, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) expert Sheri Van Dijk offers powerful skills to help you manage your emotions, so you won't have to rely on self-destructive behaviors. Whether you're actively engaging in self-harm by injuring your body, or participating in other self-destructive behaviors such as substance abuse or disordered eating, this workbook will help you create your own action plan for change.

This workbook will guide you through four essential DBT skills:

• Mindfulness shows you how to experience emotion without having to act on it
• Distress tolerance teaches you how to deal with the urge to self-harm
• Emotional regulation allows you to understand and control painful feelings
• Interpersonal effectiveness helps you build self-respect and minimize feelings of worthlessness and hopelessness

Life can be painful, but you don't need to face this pain all on your own. With support, and the skills outlined in this workbook, you'll gain the tools you need to manage difficult thoughts and feelings in safer, healthier ways.

Whether dealing with a breakup or divorce, work-related frustrations, or a global crisis, everyone struggles with difficult thoughts and feelings at some point in their lives. This take-anywhere guide teaches readers about distress tolerance-one of the four core skills of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)-and offers quick, effective tools for managing overwhelming emotions so readers can keep their cool in the face of life's inevitable challenges.