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Discover DBT Create a Life Worth Living

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Is the Proven 6-Month Solution to Escape Negativity

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Discover DBT Create a Life Worth Living

By: Peggy Darling
Narrated by: Peggy Darling
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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).

  1. Wise mind
  2. Observe: just notice (urge surfing)
  3. Describe: put words on
  4. Participate: enter the experience
  5. Nonjudgmental stance
  6. One-mindfully: in the moment
  7. Effectiveness: focus on what works
  8. Objective effectiveness: DEAR MAN
  9. Relationship effectiveness: GIVE
  10. Self-respect effectiveness: FAST
  11. Reduce vulnerability: PLEASE
  12. Build mastery
  13. Build positive experiences
  14. Opposite-to-emotion action (alternative to rebellion)
  15. Distract (adaptive denial)
  16. Self soothe
  17. Improve the moment
  18. Pros and cons
  19. Radical acceptance
  20. 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.

©2022 Peggy Jean Darling (P)2022 Peggy Jean Darling
Mental Health Mood Disorders Personal Development Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Emotions

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We live in a world of constant turmoil. On any given day, we encounter things that we can complain about if we let ourselves do it. Unfortunately, focusing on negatives puts you in a mindset that can be self-destructive and stressful. This book helps you get past this cycle of negativity and teaches you how to embrace the positive aspects of our lives.

A Must Read

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This book was incredibly valuable. I have been searching for information on DBT to help my spouse who is bipolar. He actually attended 4 sessions of this ‘treatment’ at our local mental health clinic and all it did was frustrate him. After those 4 classes, he still had no idea what he was supposed to be learning and all that did was add to the problems. This book was a godsend for us. It outlines realistic, easy to understand explanations of DBT as well as how and why it helps! The techniques are clearly described and offer opportunity to practice what you are learning. He is slowly starting to be able to control his anger and it is making our house much more peaceful.
When someone you love has a mental illness, you want to do anything you can to help them. This book is helping me to help him, we finally ‘get it’!! Thank you for making it easier for us!

Incredibly valuable resource!

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I think this guide on dialectical behavior therapy is so well researched. It’s a great guide to understand what dialectical behavior therapy is and will do great is your already in therapy to help you at-home. There’s so much useful information in this book. I especially liked how the author talked about things you could do to get better sleep because that’s always an issue for me.

Amazing

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This book is one of the most informative and useful self-help books out there!

The techniques used are brilliant helping eliminate negativity from your mind. I feel more in control of my life since listening to this. I am creating better positive habits and getting rid of the old negative habits.

What I especially loved about this book were the exercises that I easily applied to my daily life. I am more capable of handling stressful situations in a calm manner and better at regulating my emotions.

I highly recommend this book to everyone dealing with mental health issues or anyone who is close to someone struggling mentally; you will find peace within this book.

Excellent book!

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I have no idea about the DBT. This book is worth reading. I have learnt so much about DBT and all the resources are out there for people who are going through all the mental disorders mentioned in the book and feeling all alone not knowing all the help they have out there. This author Nurse Darling has done an excellent work on this book giving out all the information and guidance. She also provided free book, phone numbers of helpline and pdf copy.
Nurse Darling went above and beyond to share her knowledge and experience in hope to help as many people as can. Thank you I really appreciate all you have done and doing. God bless you.

Very powerful book

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