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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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21 practices

Twenty minutes Any ordinary day Clear all

Theme

When you use something to cope 5 When everything feels flat 5 Tolerate distress 5 Emotions as signals 3 Shame 2 Question the thought 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 17 Five minutes 52 Twenty minutes 21 Longer 6

Approach

DBT skills 5 Medical and treatment 4 Body based 4 Emotionally focused 3 Parts work 2 Trauma informed 2 CBT 1

When · Any ordinary day

Any ordinary day 21 Under stress 8 After a row 1 Coming and going 1

When one bit of you wants to let the feeling come and another bit is frightened of it, you are not being difficult. You are two things at once, and both of them have their reasons.

The frightened side is usually the one that kept you going for years, so shoving past it tends to make it dig in harder. It works better to turn…

Twenty minutesTolerate distressBody basedQur’an 16:127