by charlie | Dec 11, 2016 | DBT for All
Was I out of my mind? Standing at the porch, having already rung the doorbell, I was having serious second thoughts. Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. In short, I was scared! I had just walked nearly half a mile through the neighborhood to find the house, and... 
by charlie | Sep 27, 2016 | DBT for All
The first two paragraphs provide a very brief summary of the principles of Change and Acceptance, which I covered in more detail in the last two blogs. So if you prefer, you can jump past them and go right to the principles of the Dialectical Paradigm. Think of any... 
by charlie | Aug 28, 2016 | DBT for All
Presence Impermanence Non-attachment Inter-being Perfect-as-is One Sunday in October, years ago, I was driving my family to visit a wonderful Halloween maze created every year by a farmer in his field. I don’t recall what I was thinking about, but I was preoccupied... 
by charlie | Aug 19, 2016 | DBT for All
Yesterday I was getting dressed in the locker room at the YMCA after swimming. I overheard a conversation taking place between two guys who obviously knew each other. One was upset with his son-in-law. He’s been complaining, on and on and on, about the fact that the... 
by charlie | Aug 11, 2016 | DBT for All
Marsha Linehan developed DBT to help suicidal individuals get out of emotional hell and to help them build lives worth living. As it turns out, the therapeutic action of the treatment seems to depend on helping the patient gain the capacity to regulate emotions more...