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Discover DBT Create a Life Worth Living
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Is the Proven 6-Month Solution to Escape Negativity
- Narrated by: Peggy Darling
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Summary
Create a Life Worth Living, no matter what hurdles you face. If you are:
- Depressed, harming yourself, or even having suicidal thoughts.
- Distracted, afraid, worried, and anxious.
- Have trouble with relationships (partners, family, school, work, your neighbors).
- Overreacting or letting your emotions dominate your rational thinking.
- Sabotaging your long-term peace of mind by making poor short-term decisions.
- Distressed to the point of misery about all kinds of situations in your life.
These solutions are effective and based on rigorous clinical evidence researched for over 30 years all over the globe. In this book, you can learn to overcome challenging obstacles:
- How to recognize, accurately identify, and deal with the emotions causing you problems.
- Discover and master ways to bring calm and peace to your mind.
- Use your wise mind to know the difference between distress you can change and distress you must learn to accept and tolerate.
- How to build, maintain, and sustain your meaningful relationships.
- Discover and practice 20 techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).
- Wise mind
- Observe: just notice (urge surfing)
- Describe: put words on
- Participate: enter the experience
- Nonjudgmental stance
- One-mindfully: in the moment
- Effectiveness: focus on what works
- Objective effectiveness: DEAR MAN
- Relationship effectiveness: GIVE
- Self-respect effectiveness: FAST
- Reduce vulnerability: PLEASE
- Build mastery
- Build positive experiences
- Opposite-to-emotion action (alternative to rebellion)
- Distract (adaptive denial)
- Self soothe
- Improve the moment
- Pros and cons
- Radical acceptance
- Building structure
Nobody gets out of this life alive, and nobody's life is perfect. Everybody faces their measure of grief. You may be the survivor of abuse or feel traumatized by events from your past. You may encounter the agony of knowing you've deeply hurt others or not accepting yourself and moving forward after making big mistakes.
In this book, you'll learn about difficult subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. You can learn to transform a life of hardship into one full of promise and significance. DBT can teach new methods to reverse and actively take control of self-destructive habits and negative thought patterns.
When you use the skills and methods in this book, you will better manage emotions, communicate successfully with others, cope with difficult and stressful circumstances, and apply mindfulness regularly. You will discover how to change your life.
As you practice what you learn, it becomes simpler to appreciate what's lovely within yourself and the world when you put what you've learned into practice and then act on it.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- RichB
- 16-10-22
Very Useful and informative
I picked up this book as I wanted to learn more about the behaviours, this book it very well put together and well researched.
With what I learned I can spot my own behaviour and start to address them.
The Authors done a great job and very recommend to others seeking more info on DBT.
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- Matthew Henderson
- 20-10-22
Outstanding and very thorough!
Wonderfully done by the author. Escaping negativity is not easy. We can be our own worst enemy. That's why its so important to have reliable resources like this to help us. I definitely recommend this book!
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- D. Luria
- 01-11-22
What Perfect Timing
What Perfect Timing
The title of this book caught my eye because I had never heard of Dialectic Behavior Therapy. But I really appreciated the timing of what I heard.
For example, I learned about "Distress Tolerance" which is my ability to tolerate and respond to sustained and chronic negative stress. The author mentions that this type of stress (as opposed to healthy physical stress from exercise) can affect my immunological response. (I am just getting over cancer, so learning about this helps me return to the safety of only managing the things in my control).
While I have sorted through many things from my past, there is always more to unpack. This book is well-researched, highly-detailed, and super helpful for anyone willing to do the work. Easy to recommend.
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- GC JERMAN
- 27-10-22
Impressive book
So many wonderful tools to help with depression, anxiety and dealing with difficulty. This is a well researched and well presented body of work clearly written by someone with significant real world experience. Great book to understand the science but also filled with many practical examples and solutions to issues. I am also a great believer in mindfulness and using breathing techniques. A great resource to use on your journey to happiness and coping with your emotions. Though it is content rich it is still easy to follow and understand. Five stars from me.
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- Natasha
- 12-04-24
This book has changed my life ❤️
I cannot be more grateful for this audiobook, I wish I could get a hardcopy or paperback to carry around with me (haven’t been able to find one to purchase). This Dbt book breaks down each module perfectly and has been essential to my remission with bpd. I recommend it. Peggy’s easy going, relaxed, tolerant audio compliments the book wonderfully, felt like I was being spoken to by someone I knew and genuinely cares for me.
The only issue I had was the occasional dipping quality of the audio recording, sometimes it would sound like it was really far away or in a cupboard lol then it would pick back up again.
Thank you for this book Peggy ❤️
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- Booklover123
- 17-10-22
Absolutely Fascinating deep dive.
7 and a half hours of a great deal of evidence based research, deep diving into DBT and it's effectiveness. The first chapter is a brilliant scene setter for those new to the subject of DBT bringing you up to speed with what it is, some evidence behind it and it's wide variety of use cases. As someone who has experienced mental health difficulties in the past I can certainly say that this book and its content does feel relevant to my personal situation as I'm sure it will for many many others. When the book moved onto the techniques used in DBT this was a comprehensive deep-dive that covered in detail everything you could possibly want to know. Being over 7 hours this is obviously one that you can do in chunks but it will certainly be worth it I can promise you of that.
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- Vanessa Watson
- 22-09-22
An excellent place to start if you are struggling
This book is an excellent resource for those battling mental health issues like depression and anxiety. There is a wealth of information on identifying and handling your emotions, self-calming methods, and emotional self-regulation. This information is so important as more and more people are battling negativity and mental health crises. I highly recommend this as a place to start if you are struggling.
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- Sass
- 06-10-22
Sound & helpful guidance from a true authority
Peggy Darling's well-researched book does a fantastic job of teaching you the abilities and strategies to more effectively control emotions, interact with people in productive ways, deal with challenging and demanding situations, and work towards a calmer, happier life.
By the time you're done listening to this knowledge-packed audiobook, you'll thoroughly comprehend DBT and learn how to best recognise, understand, and embrace feelings and apply this knowledge to your own situation.
You'll learn how to make changes in your life using validated DBT procedures that improve awareness and enhance the effectiveness of interactions with others. The approaches are precisely explained and there are clear strategies to put what you are learning into practice.
Peggy Darling, an expert in her field, has created a top-notch resource with straightforward facts and sage guidance, which she sensitively delivers in a kind, captivating style. You get the feeling that she really cares and genuinely wants to help.
The complimentary PDF that comes with the audiobook, listing reputable helplines' phone numbers, is a very thoughtful and practical addition.
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- Kris & Danelle Land
- 27-10-22
Great book and learning tool for DBT
I have several friends that have may have borderline, the fight with constant internal struggles of self worth, destroying their relationships, not feeling safe, and many other things that keep them from enjoying their life to the fullest. Even if they have everything going in the right direction they feel like the "next shoe will drop at anytime", and they have to be prepared by self sabotage. I'm not a Dr. but this is how my friend have explained how they feel. DBT seems to be the only way to help people suffering from these types of feelings and this book is well written with great examples and references.
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- Hog Haven
- 18-02-24
Bringing therapy back into our own hands
I had heard of DBT but was not sure what all it included and someone recommended it to me as my daughter suffers from anxiety and negative thoughts. Immediately I was drawn in and hooked at how detailed this book was and how helpful it could be for us. Learning to apply the DEAR MAN technique has been improving the communication skills, making interactions more effective and less stressful because we are learning to remove the confusion. These skills can be applied universally which was great to learn. I wanted my daughter to start to learn skills that no matter where she was at, she could apply these techniques to help her through whatever troubling period she may have been having. So far, so good. She has started to listen to different parts of the book again to make sure she really understands how to apply the techniques appropriately.
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