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Aug 12, 2024 - 5 Skills to Help Manage Your Distress Through DBT
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August 12, 2024
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What's Distress Tolerance? 5 Skills to Help Manage Your Distress Through DBT
American philosopher William James once said, “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
This doesn’t mean avoiding distress or unpleasant emotions in life. In fact, experiencing negative emotions or events is something everyone goes through at one point in time or another.
“Distress tolerance” is all about learning to manage your response to a situation. In truth, we can’t control every situation that we meet. But we can control our reaction and how we process or cope.
Distress tolerance skills are actually rooted in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), which is a type of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).
So, let’s dive in!
What should you know about distress tolerance?
How can you use it to manage any distress in your life? …
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Can’t Remember Your Dreams? 5 Helpful Tips & Thoughts on How to Decipher Them
Dream experts state that everyone dreams. Even those who swear they never remember their dreams are said to experience dreaming when they are in deep sleep.
How often do you remember your dreams?
Does it come easily for you to remember or do you forget them most of the time?
The ability to remember dreams varies and some people can remember most dreams, while others wake up not remembering anything.
The good news is that there are things you can do to help you better remember every dream. You simply have to train your brain to start remembering details.
5 Tips to Help You Remember Your Dreams
1. Practice at Your Window.
To remember your dreams, you can try training your brain to remember little details.
One way you can do this is by looking out your window every day and focusing on everything you see. After you've studied your surroundings for a few minutes…
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I am so grateful for every experience I have. I am proud of how far I’ve come and I will continue on. I know that these new possibilities will turn into something... Continue Reading
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