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Low mood and hard feelings

Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.

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3 practices

Core A minute Clear all

Theme

Question the thought 2 Working with anger 1

How long you have · A minute

A minute 3 Five minutes 4

Approach · Core

DBT skills 9 Mindfulness 9 Medical and treatment 7 Emotionally focused 7 Trauma informed 4 Core 3 Parts work 2 Body based 2 CBT 2 Grief 1

When

Under stress 2 Any ordinary day 1

Take the thought that is upsetting you and ask: what is another way to read this?

The event is fixed; the meaning is not. A second reading often fits the facts and hurts less.

A minuteQuestion the thoughtCoreQur’an 2:216

Notice when you have jumped to the worst story, and hold it as a guess, not a fact.

They meant to hurt me, this always happens. Label these as theories, then look for evidence.

A minuteQuestion the thoughtCoreQur’an 49:12

Catch the first body sign of anger, the jaw, the chest, the heat, and name it there.

Caught early, anger can be chosen. Caught late, it chooses for you.

A minuteWorking with angerCoreQur’an 42:37