DBT Skill: Radical Acceptance - Mental Health Help with Kati Morton
Today I'm talking about "Radical acceptance" which is a Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skill. One of the four options you have for any problem is Radical Acceptance (Linehan, 1993). ...
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Today I want to talk with you about Radical Acceptance. Now what is Radical Acceptance? Well it falls under the DBT 'Distress Tolerance' tools and skills that you learn. And the reason that they created all of these different tools, Is because many people they find, Struggle with overwhelming emotions a lot of the time. And those emotions make their life, for lack of better a term, pretty miserable. And so what do we do when we are feeling all of these overwhelming horrible emotions, We're just feeling like run over by them. We have to learn ways to tolerate it. Distress tolerance. And the main thing that they believe, And I am referencing. If you remember, my handy dandy DBT workbook. That is amazing. If you haven't picked it up, I ...
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Today I want to talk with you about Radical Acceptance. Now what is Radical Acceptance? Well it falls under the DBT 'Distress Tolerance' tools and skills that you learn. And the reason that they created all of these different tools, Is because many people they find, Struggle with overwhelming emotions a lot of the time. And those emotions make their life, for lack of better a term, pretty miserable. And so what do we do when we are feeling all of these overwhelming horrible emotions, We're just feeling like run over by them. We have to learn ways to tolerate it. Distress tolerance. And the main thing that they believe, And I am referencing. If you remember, my handy dandy DBT workbook. That is amazing. If you haven't picked it up, I ...
