HOMEWORK: Pick something safe and easy to do a Pros and Cons list on and describe the experience of doing this exercise ( Read more... )

There is something I have learned in Dialectical Behavior Therapy that is probably obvious to most other people, but it was a big revelation for me: We are not our emotions. We experience emotions, but we don't have to act on them -- we can even act opposite of them. We are not defined by our emotions and we are more than our emotions. I have ( Read more... )