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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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Tolerate distress Longer Any ordinary day Clear all

Theme · Tolerate distress

When you use something to cope 3 Question the thought 1 Tolerate distress 1 Shame 1

How long you have · Longer

A minute 2 Five minutes 4 Twenty minutes 5 Longer 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 1 Under stress 1

Before you go anywhere near the hard memory, you need to be able to stay in your own body while something difficult is happening in it. That capacity is part of the work, not a delay before it starts.

Phase based approaches put this first for a plain reason: people who cannot bear the arousal either drop out or push through and come away worse. If…

LongerTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 3:200