Despite the fact that much empirical evidence to connects addictions to pre-existing risk factors addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender, and race. But the experience Read more…
Introduction The Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills building mastery and coping ahead are based on building and appreciating the feeling of achievement. This feeling is most often created when we achieve a goal or accomplish something Read more…
Sometimes asking in clear and specific ways for what you want can bring up difficult feelings like anxiety and self-doubt, many people struggle with a sense that their needs are not valid and that Read more…
Trigger Thoughts, Thought Diffusion, and Coping Thoughts. Trigger thoughts are those thoughts that cause emotional pain and suffering, if you get stuck on your trigger thoughts, you probably experience overwhelming emotions more frequently than Read more…
RADICAL ACCEPTANCE The word dialectic in dialectical behaviour therapy, means to find balance between change and acceptance. You need to change those patterns of thought and behaviour in your life that are creating suffering whilst Read more…
Emotional Regulation Skills RECOGNISING YOUR EMOTIONS – A SIX STEP PROCESS 1. What happened? Describe the situation (not the emotions) that lead to your emotions. 2. Why did that situation happen? Identify the causes of Read more…
What Is Meditation? Meditation practices are techniques that encourage and develop a range of positive mental, emotional, and physical effects including: • concentration • serenity • positivity • clarity • relaxation Through practicing Read more…
Eric Berne, author of The Games People Play, described how the decisions about ourselves, our world and our relationships with others are crystallized during our first 5 years of life. These decisions are based on Read more…
Diaries of thoughts, feelings, and experiences, have been most often kept in the form of the written word. But when it comes to exploring feelings, thoughts, dreams, and visions of the future, drawing, painting, Read more…
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of Read more…