Practices

Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.

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Area
How long you have
Who it is written for
Where you are right now
On your own, or with someone
Theme
Approach · DBT skills
When · Any ordinary day

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

You were shaped with care. On a day you feel worthless, that is a feeling, not a fact.

Feeling worthless is weather, not the ground. The ground is that you were made well.

A minuteYour worth is not conditionalDBT skillsQur’an 95:4

Stop measuring your inside against other people's outside. Run your own race.

Comparison is a game rigged to make you lose. Turn your eyes back to your own path.

A minuteYour worth is not conditionalDBT skillsQur’an 4:32

Your worth is not your output. A bad day at work does not lower your value as a person.

You are not a scoreboard. Performance rises and falls; your worth is not pinned to it.

Five minutesYour worth is not conditionalDBT skillsQur’an 17:70

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