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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 Twenty minutes Under stress Clear all

Theme · Tolerate distress

Shame 3 Emotions as signals 2 Letting it out safely 2 Tolerate distress 1

How long you have · Twenty minutes

A minute 4 Five minutes 5 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

When · Under stress

Any ordinary day 5 Under stress 1

Putting a film on, reading, letting the internet have an hour, all of it counts as a real skill when you choose it on purpose and know what you are choosing it for.

The version that hurts is the one you fall into without deciding and feel ashamed of afterwards. Choosing changes the whole thing: I am not up to…

Twenty minutesTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 73:10