List of positive affirmations about emotions.
Learn about the DBT Biosocial Theory, which explains why some people struggle with difficulties regulating emotions.
Learn how biology and environment interact, and may lead to some people struggling with intense emotions.
Telling yourself, "don't feel sad," doesn't change that you are feeling sad. Learning how to validate and hold compassionate space for your emotions is a much more effective (and kind) approach. Self-validation helps your the emotional part of your brain to begin to quiet so that you can then m...
Use this worksheet to remember how to validate yourself and to use the self-validation script provided.
Learn about the primary emotions and the ways that we experience emotions, associated action urges, and the gifts of those emotions. Learn about happiness, sadness, anger, fear, shame, guilt, jealousy, envy, disgust, and love.
Develop greater awareness of your emotions and the accompanying action urges to be able to achieve better emotion regulation.
Learn the general way that emotions work. Learn things that keep emotions around for a long time and behaviors that reactivate emotions.
Handout on the basic model of how emotions work. Vulnerability factors, prompting events, interpretation, emotion expression, emotion experiencing, and after effects.
This video describes numerous common thinking patterns that can increase negative emotion and make life more difficult to handle.
Learn how to use dialectical thinking to create greater balance in your life and improve relationships. From "DBT Skills .
In this handout you'll find some common thinking mistakes, which can lead to misinterpreting situations and experiencing painful emotions. Try to notice (nonjudgmentally) when use one of these thinking mistakes and see if you can come up with a new dialectical thought in its place.
