DBT Skills Series 14
DBT validation helps calm conflict, reduce defensiveness, and strengthen connection. Learn how understanding — not agreement — transforms relationships and self-compassion.
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Entries by Kari
Calming the Storm and Healing the Roots: Mindful Communication, Emotional Safety, and Healing Through DBT and EMDR
Learn how DBT and EMDR work together to calm emotional storms and heal deep-rooted triggers — helping you communicate mindfully, feel safer in connection, and live more peacefully.
DBT Skills Series 13
When your body is cared for, your emotions stay steadier. DBT PLEASE Skills teach how physical care—sleep, nutrition, movement, and health maintenance—reduces emotional vulnerability and builds resilience.
DBT Skills Series 12
The DBT skill Cope Ahead helps you mentally rehearse calm before challenges, strengthening confidence and reducing emotional overwhelm when stress arises.
Attachment Theory, Relationships, and How EMDR Can Help
Explore how secure and insecure attachment patterns shape relationships—and how EMDR therapy can support healing, growth, and lasting emotional connection.
DBT Skills Series 11
Building Mastery is a DBT skill that helps you grow confidence and resilience. By taking on achievable challenges, you strengthen your ability to handle emotions and build steady moments of pride in yourself.
DBT Skills Series 10
When life feels draining, even small moments of joy can refill your emotional reserves. Learn how DBT’s Accumulating Positives skill helps you build balance.
Why Do I Feel So Much? ADHD, Emotion Dysregulation, and What Helps
Do your emotions feel “too much” with ADHD? DBT and EMDR therapy can help bring balance.
DBT Skills Series 9
Feeling stuck? Learn how DBT’s Problem Solving skill can help you slow down, sort through what’s going on, and take the next right step.
DBT Skills Series 8
Stuck in Sadness or Anger? DBT’s Opposite Action Skill Helps You Shift What You Feel by Changing What You Do In DBT, the Opposite Action skill is used when your emotions feel real but aren’t quite accurate—or are pushing you to react in ways that might hurt more than help. You’re hurt, so you withdraw. […]
