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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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DBT skills Five minutes After a row Clear all

How long you have · Five minutes

A minute 2 Five minutes 1

Approach · DBT skills

Emotionally focused 12 Body based 1 DBT skills 1

When · After a row

Any ordinary day 7 Under stress 3 After a row 1

A calming skill handed over at the wrong moment reads as your anger is not welcome here. For someone taught as a child that their anger was unacceptable, that is the old prohibition arriving again in kinder clothes.

Let the anger be seen first. Say that it makes sense, that there is a reason for it, and only then offer anything that settles the body. The order…

Five minutesTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 2:45