If you've been using DBT for awhile, you know that it can become difficult to maintain momentum and desire to keep using skills consistently. In this episode, Kate and Michelle discuss four common challenges that can arise as barriers to regular skill use: not thinking about DBT enough, feeling willful about using skills, struggles to establish a consistent routine with skills, and feeling burnt out by trying to do too much DBT at once. For each challenge, they share helpful tips on how to overcome it. 

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Kate and Michelle discuss active passivity and apparent competence by first explaining each concept in-depth, followed by sharing personal examples and skills that can help with shifting into a place of healthier balance when struggles with these states take place. 

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Kate and Michelle answer listener questions about establishing daily habits, coping when a therapist cancels therapy sessions, making DBT accessible, and being triggered when you're the parent of a toddler.

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Kate and Michelle talk about their personal reactions to the 2024 election results. They share different DBT skills for the emotions of fear, disgust, sadness and anger, and how DBT can help us both accept our emotions during this time and use them for positive action. 

TRIGGER WARNING: Material that may be triggering is discussed from 1:06:07-1:06:13.

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Kate and Michelle answer listener questions about what to do when you're judging your partner, high anxiety, coping with a partner's drinking, and fears about a therapist "firing you." 

TRIGGER WARNING: Material that may be triggering is discussed from 38:45-39:06.

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Kate and Michelle are joined by Lynn Gray to discuss her personal experiences with mental health stigma from mental health providers. She reads aloud an article she wrote for Medium and talks about what can be done within the therapist community to start changing perceptions of mental health diagnoses to be more accepting and less damaging to clients. 

TRIGGER WARNING: Material that may be triggering is discussed from 15:03-15:22 and from 22:14-22:15.

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Kate and Michelle answer listener questions about workplace burnout, being emotionally sensitive, feeling depleted after therapy sessions, and emotions that won't go away. 

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Our book, "DBT for Everyone" is available! Order your copy on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Dbt-Everyone-Pitfalls-Possibilities-Better/dp/1839975881/

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Kate and Michelle answer listener questions about long-standing family conflict, continuing to use skills after a group is finished, struggles with motivation, and differentiating between "reason" mind and wise mind. 

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Our book, "DBT for Everyone" is available! Order your copy on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Dbt-Everyone-Pitfalls-Possibilities-Better/dp/1839975881/

Consider providing ongoing support to the podcast by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/dbtandme

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TRIGGER WARING: at 19:33, 31:50, 44:45, 1hr 12min

Michelle is joined by Diana Partington, who is a DBT facilitator, author, and podcaster. Diana reads an excerpt from her book and talks about what inspired her to write it, her newly launched podcast, and the webinars she offers. She talks with Michelle in-depth about how Buddhism brings in elements of radical acceptance and provides invaluable teaching about how Buddhism can deepen the use of DBT.

Diana's website: https://dbtforlife.com/

Diana's book: https://www.amazon.com/Dbt-Life-Skills-transform-Lotus/dp/B0CW2ZKB5S/

You can find Diana's podcast "Suffering Optional" on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suffering-optional/id1767018426) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2pcJyyW5wc2LEO130ZZpMx)

You can find her webinar offerings here: https://dbtforlife.com/services/

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Michelle is joined by Dr. Jesse Finkelstein, co-founder of TheraHive. They discuss the unique services TheraHive offers and how TheraHive aims to overcome some of the larger systemic barriers many clients face to accessing formal DBT resources. Throughout the episode, they highlight the importance of making DBT approachable and talk about ways this can be done.

RELEASE DATE: October 9, 2024

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Our book, "DBT for Everyone" is available! Order your copy on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Dbt-Everyone-Pitfalls-Possibilities-Better/dp/1839975881/

Consider providing ongoing support to the podcast by becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/dbtandme

You can join our facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dbtandmepodcast

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