Transactional Model of Emotional Dysregulation
by Corrine Stoewsand When an individual is emotionally sensitive and volatile, the people who are closest - family members, partners, and...
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- Feb 3
What makes this DBT Family Workshop so special?
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...
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- Jan 24
Is your best attempt at validation getting thrown back in your face?
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....
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- Jan 5
Are you feeling STRESSED?
Maybe you are more like frozen in fear, suffocating in humiliation, or exploding with rage? How can you possibly RELIEVE and even SOOTHE...
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- Dec 15, 2022
Family Resources for Talking about Suicide
When Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the 1980s, she originally intended it to be used for treating...
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- Dec 15, 2022
But I tried to help!
Emotional Activation Escalates Invalidation Invalidation Escalates Emotional Activation When the transactional nature of invalidation and...
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- Nov 3, 2022
Attention and Mental Health
"Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention - due to either agitation or dullness -...
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- Oct 11, 2022
Are you "enabling" those angry verbal attacks against you?
No, I am not blaming the victim here. People are fully accountable for their own actions and anyone who screams, shouts, blames, swears,...
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- Oct 11, 2022
DBT 12-Week Family Workshops
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...
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- Sep 12, 2022
Radical Acceptance
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...
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- Aug 23, 2022
Self-Inquiry: Key to being an emotionally healthy adult
"It is really about self awareness. We cannot be more connected to other people than we are to ourselves.” Brené Brown What might happen...
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- Jul 31, 2022
At the edge of a "disordered" personality?
The label, "borderline personality disorder" (BPD) is simply inscrutable. It describes nothing about this mental illness and it sounds...
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- Jul 11, 2022
ANXIETY: It's not what you think!
The Merriam-Webster dictionary has several definitions of anxiety: 1. Apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or...
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- Jun 1, 2022
Emotional Regulation
with OPPOSITE ACTION Opposite action is more than a skill. It is a philosophy of life. Like dialectics or radical acceptance or...
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- May 31, 2022
Learn new skills this summer
Stop Walking On Eggshells DBT Workshop for Families of persons with borderline personality disorder Summer schedule: 12 Fridays June...
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- May 10, 2022
DBT in schools!
Parents demanded it and their call was heard. "DBT Steps-A" has been developed and tested in schools for a wide range of adolescents with...
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- May 2, 2022
Setting Boundaries: Q&A with Randi Kreger
Case 1: Setting Boundaries on adolescent yelling and insulting Excerpts from the live Q & A, April 7, 2022, with Randi and Corrine...
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- Apr 28, 2022
Long-Term Prognosis of Borderline Personality Disorder
Corrine R. Stoewsand, Ph.D. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) was once used as a pejorative label by clinicians for patients who were...
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- Apr 18, 2022
Borderline Personality Disorder is not the parent’s “fault”
Corrine Stoewsand I recently remembered being in a psychology class several years ago. It was a course on psychopathology, the psychology...
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- Apr 7, 2022
DBT Workshop for Families
Stop Walking on Eggshells!
DBT Family Workshop
Registration is open for this 12-week workshop on Thursdays, May 5-July 21. More info...
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