FAMILY & INDIVIDUAL COACHING

Now we have three strategies for regulating emotions: Checking the Facts, Opposite Action, and Problem Solving, (not to mention Mindfulness.) HOW DO WE DECIDE WHICH STRATEGY TO USE? Method 1: Identify the emotion that you are experiencing and the context in which arose. Then go to the flow chart on the right. Ask yourself, Does this emotion fit the facts? You can check the facts and see if the emotion is the result of your thoughts and interpretations or if it is justified b

Artificial Intelligence that Identifies Suicide Risk as Accurately as Trained Clinicians Siddhu Pachipala, a high school senior, is a...

A slow drip can dissolve rock, cut mountains in half, and reshape the planet. Can it cut through the stonewalling of your stubborn love...

That is where reducing conflict begins! Do you feel like a deer in the headlights in front of your reactive husband? Does your son or...

It seems there is not much difference! If you look at the “DSM-5” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) you know that...

by Corrine Stoewsand

A few people have asked me how my workshop differs from others out there. I love to meet informed persons who research the options that...

Maybe you are not really an emotionally connected kind of person. You have no idea what your loved-one is feeling and they don't either....

Maybe you are more like frozen in fear, suffocating in humiliation, or exploding with rage? How can you possibly RELIEVE and even SOOTHE...

When Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the 1980s, she originally intended it to be used for treating...

Emotional Activation Escalates Invalidation Invalidation Escalates Emotional Activation When the transactional nature of invalidation and...

"Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention - due to either agitation or dullness -...

No, I am not blaming the victim here. People are fully accountable for their own actions and anyone who screams, shouts, blames, swears,...

Do you have a son or daughter or other loved one who is emotionally volatile and blaming you for all their problems? Perhaps they are...

is not helplessness, hopelessness, or lack of change. Denial: "I can do 99 things just the way my wife says she wants them, and if the...

"It is really about self awareness. We cannot be more connected to other people than we are to ourselves.”

The label, "borderline personality disorder" (BPD) is simply inscrutable. It describes nothing about this mental illness and it sounds...

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has several definitions of anxiety:

with OPPOSITE ACTION Opposite action is more than a skill. It is a philosophy of life. Like dialectics or radical acceptance or...

Stop Walking On Eggshells DBT Workshop for Families of persons with borderline personality disorder Summer schedule: 12 Fridays June...