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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Tolerate distress Longer Under stress Clear all

How long you have · Longer

A minute 4 Five minutes 5 Twenty minutes 1 Longer 1

Who it is written for

A practitioner 1 Me 1 Someone I care about 1

Theme · Tolerate distress

Screens and attention 3 Medication and how it works 2 Systems for daily life 2 Bringing the future closer 2 Shame and stigma 1 Getting assessed and diagnosed 1 Get started 1 Feelings and focus 1 Growing empathy 1 Moving your body 1 The cost of avoiding 1 When everything feels flat 1 Tolerate distress 1

When · Under stress

Under stress 1 Any ordinary day 1

When a feeling is genuinely unbearable, escaping it is the only regulator you have, so the drinking or the shutting down is doing a job. Build up what you can bear and the job disappears.

It helps to stop asking why you keep reaching for the thing and start asking what state you were in just before you reached. Usually it is a…

LongerTolerate distressDBT skillsQur’an 41:49

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