Create a Life Worth Living, no matter what hurdles you face. If you are:
- Depressed, harming yourself, or even having suicidal thoughts.
- Distracted, afraid, worried, and anxious.
- Have trouble with relationships (partners, family, school, work, your neighbors).
- Overreacting or letting your emotions dominate your rational thinking.
- Sabotaging your long-term peace of mind by making poor short-term decisions.
- Distressed to the point of misery about all kinds of situations in your life.
These solutions are effective and based on rigorous clinical evidence researched for over 30 years all over the globe. In this book, you can learn to overcome challenging obstacles:
- How to recognize, accurately identify, and deal with the emotions causing you problems.
- Discover and master ways to bring calm and peace to your mind.
- Use your wise mind to know the difference between distress you can change and distress you must learn to accept and tolerate.
- How to build, maintain, and sustain your meaningful relationships.
- Discover and practice 20 techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
- Wise mind
- Observe: just notice (urge surfing)
- Describe: put words on
- Participate: enter the experience
- Nonjudgmental stance
- One-mindfully: in the moment
- Effectiveness: focus on what works
- Objective effectiveness: DEAR MAN
- Relationship effectiveness: GIVE
- Self-respect effectiveness: FAST
- Reduce vulnerability: PLEASE
- Build mastery
- Build positive experiences
- Opposite-to-emotion action (alternative to rebellion)
- Distract (adaptive denial)
- Self soothe
- Improve the moment
- Pros and cons
- Radical acceptance
- Building structure
Nobody gets out of this life alive, and nobody's life is perfect. Everybody faces their measure of grief. You may be the survivor of abuse or feel traumatized by events from your past. You may encounter the agony of knowing you've deeply hurt others or not accepting yourself and moving forward after making big mistakes.
In this book, you'll learn about difficult subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. You can learn to transform a life of hardship into one full of promise and significance. DBT can teach new methods to reverse and actively take control of self-destructive habits and negative thought patterns.
When you use the skills and methods in this book, you will better manage emotions, communicate successfully with others, cope with difficult and stressful circumstances, and apply mindfulness regularly. You will discover how to change your life.
As you practice what you learn, it becomes simpler to appreciate what's lovely within yourself and the world when you put what you've learned into practice and then act on it.
