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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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.
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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.
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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.