Today it's all about DEARMAN!!! Finally! Learn an effective way to get what you want and need, as well as say no to unwanted requests! This is a great skill to practice with anyone! The best part is with practice, you can try easy things! Caroline mentioned a grad student did his skills practice for DEARMAN at a Taco Bell drive thru! You really don't have to overthink these practice runs, and having a script actually makes conversations go more smoothly, because you already have an idea of what you're planning on saying! Good luck this week!

DEARMAN - DBT Weekly Episode 23

This is a mental health therapy and skills development podcast designed to help listeners improve their ability to regulate emotion, reduce problem behaviors and learn new, skillful behaviors. This is all based on the Dialectical Behavior Therapy treatment model! Prepare for zigging and zagging, simply because life will do that, and we can choose how to respond - wisely!

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Try to remember that all behavior is caused, and working to find why it happened, rather than resorting to blame or judgment :) Let's look at how behavior in our own lives and others has been reinforced. Positive and Negative don't mean good or bad in this skill set. It's about adding or taking away! Adding a "reward" (even if it's not effective) is positive. Removing pain or providing relief is a negative reinforcer! Also, my asthma is rough today! Thanks for listening! PS Dialectics is incompatible with blame!!!! Be an effective project! :D

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This time, I discuss being willing and the opposite, willfulness. This is a reminder to the original episode 19 in season 1. Grab a copy of Marsha's book! It's enlightening and you won't be sad you got the book! Practice being willing - recall that life has pain, and when we avoid it, we increase our own suffering.

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DBT is NOT a trauma therapy, nope. It really does work and help get READY to process trauma. Take a listen to what DBT can seem like!

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There are three areas of emotional vulnerability and only one area can be controlled and or changed. Take a listen!

DEARMAN - DBT Weekly Episode 23

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