Acceptance Skills

Acceptance Skills

Practicing acceptance is an important way to reduce suffering and is an essential step in dealing with intense emotions.

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Acceptance Skills
  • Accepting Reality

    Learn how to reduce emotional suffering by accepting your reality. Radical acceptance allows us to accept the reality that you are in instead of the reality you wish you were in. Doing this allows you to act effectively according to your reality. Based on DBT Skill of Radical Acceptance.

  • Acceptance Skills - Clip from live class

    Watch this clip from our Live DBT Skills class where we discussed the Acceptance Skills of Radical Acceptance, Turning the Mind, and Willingness.

  • Reality Acceptance Worksheet

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  • Radical Acceptance Steps Handout

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  • Accepting Reality through the Body

    Learn ways that your body can communicate to your mind in order to create greater acceptance and to reduce emotional suffering. Learn the helpful DBT Skills of half-smile and willing hands.