List of positive affirmations about emotions.
Learn about the DBT Biosocial Theory, which explains why some people struggle with difficulties regulating 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...
Learn about the primary emotions and the ways that we experience emotions.
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 .
