Category: anxiety
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Using Journaling to Track Your Mental Health
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC Many of us enjoy seeing progress. Whether it is progress in projects, progress in physical stamina, or even progress in our jobs, progress is clear information that we are obviously doing something right. What about your mental health ? Are you able to easily track the progress you make […]
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GIVE a bit to Yourself in Relational Effectiveness
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC Hello and welcome back to the series of posts on interpersonal effectiveness skills. Today, were talking about a very important part of interpersonal effectiveness: relational effectiveness. What is relational effectiveness? I’m happy you asked! Let’s start exploring how we use relational effectiveness every day in our lives. Missed out […]
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Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC This post was originally written and published on Thrive Global on August 12, 2021. You can find it directly at : Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills (thriveglobal.com) We are now rounding the corner on the DBT pillars! In my previous posts, like DBT and Distress Tolerance Skills and Emotional Regulation: The […]
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The Power of Emotional Regulation
Emotional regulation is a skillset we learn as a way to regulate and monitor our emotions. This is different than over-feeling our emotions or ignoring and avoiding them all together. Let me explain.
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Distress Tolerance and How Wise Mind Helps us Accept What is Going on
Welcome back to the third episode of distress tolerance! I really love talking about distress tolerance skills! They help us increase frustration tolerance, build new connections between our prefrontal cortex and that darn amygdala, and release feel good neurotransmitters to calm down our triple F response. Because of all of those benefits, distress tolerance skills get 3 whole posts!
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Why it Works
By Carissa Weber On to more of the healthy and healing skills (finally)! These are the posts I bet the majority of you have been waiting for. Now that you have a basic knowledge of how the brain works, what neurotransmitters are responsible for what, and the general idea that practice produces change, we can […]
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DBT and Distress Tolerance Skills
By Carissa Weber One of the hardest things about therapy is gaining the acceptance that emotions are uncomfortable. So many people think they are supposed to feel happy go-lucky all the time, but he truth is, you’re not supposed to feel good all the time. Emotions all serve a purpose. If we ignore their purpose […]
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The brain and mental health: a basic breakdown (literally and figuratively)
By Carissa Weber, MA, LPC, CSAC The statistics still shock me: it is estimated that 1 out of 4 adults struggle with at least one mental health disorder at any given time. At least this is what John Hopkins Hospital said in 2019 before the world was beset with a massive pandemic, financial crisis, and […]