Radical Acceptance + Mindfulness of Thoughts
Faith & Meredith explore the concept of distress tolerance, focusing on radical acceptance and mindfulness of thought. They discuss the importance of accepting reality as it is and the skills involved in practicing acceptance, starting today.
How to IMPROVE hard moments
IMPROVE is a set of DBT distress tolerance skills for improving the moment when you can't change the situation. You'll know the skills are working if time has passed and you haven't made things worse.
The skill of distracting.
ACCEPTS is a set of DBT distress tolerance skills for distracting yourself in a crisis. Self-soothing uses your senses to calm your system. Both are short-term tools for buying time and not making things worse.
Distress Tolerance: The TIPP Skills for Calming Your Body
Meredith introduces the TIPP skills, which work with our bodies' biology to help us downshift the intensity in high moments of distress. From small tools that are nearly invisible, to tools like submerging our faces in ice water
