Why Would I Use A Distress Tolerance Skill?
Many people have tons of emotions all at once, like an overwhelming flood, and can feel confused and helpless. And, like they are suffering without control. In many cases, people deeply benefit form learning Dialectical Behavioral Skills (DBT) to learn to tolerate distress, without reacting. At Wisdom Within Counseling, an integrative practice for marriage and family therapy in Niantic, Connecticut, DBT skills are taught. Soon, you will have a coping skills toolbox. From DBT along the Shoreline of Connecticut, you will soon have a load of positive skills to handle and navigate emotions.
Instead of Frustration, Finally Feel Confident With Your Emotions
So, next time you have anxiety, sadness, or fear, you’ll have positive DBT coping skills to use. Often, teenagers will self-harm because they don’t have skills to use to handle their intense feelings. Each session, I teach a new skill, which my clients get to apply in sessions, and then have the experience to use and implement in the heat of the moment outside my therapy office.
What Is Radical Acceptance?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, in Niantic, along the Shoreline of Connecticut, your integrative, holistic therapist will offer you DBT skills to acknowledge, process, heal, and release overwhelming feelings. By distracting yourself with the distress tolerance skill of radical acceptance, you are taking back your personal power. Without skills, you may feel helpless to your big feelings. Instead of a self-sabotaging behavior like self-harm, alcoholism, addiction, drug use, or anger, you will learn ways to let go.
Learn DBT Skills at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic, Connecticut
Likewise, rather than distracting and numbing out through sex, drugs, and work, this DBT skill is all about distracting yourself in a good way. Rather than drinking five shots of herd alcohol because you feel alone/distant, you’ll be able to build a confident relationship with yourself through integrative, holistic therapies at Wisdom Within Counseling. to give your mind and senses a much-needed break. Therefore, from this break, you have a moment to pause and cool off instead of reacting- and possibly regretting it later.
By finding a proper, healthy way to deal with a triggering situation, you take an active role in taking back your power! Whenever you feel overwhelmed by emotions, use some of these great tips to be your own best friend and choose radical acceptance.
Feel Stuck In Life? Too Many Overwhelming Feelings?
Now, feeling stuck can be really hard. First, you regret your past. Then, you wish you could speed up the present to get into the future faster. But, here you are, with all of these overwhelming, angry feelings. So, when you feel like you are in the wrong place, Wisdom Within Counseling is here to support your whole self. The integrative and holistic marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme do not judge, and do not jump right to medication.
What Does Holistic DBT Therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic Look Like?
First, we offer you positive DBT coping skills. This way, you can learn to take back you power and process your feelings in a healthy way. However, even thought you feel like you are not where you are meant to be, a great thing to say to yourself is, “I am exactly where I am meant to be. My past has made me the amazing, beautiful person I am today. I have many unique talents to offer the world.”
Feeling Like A Failure? Have Regrets From The Past That Keep Coming Up?
When you feel that you are a failure, it can be limiting. Unfortunately, thinking so poorly of yourself will only being you down in the dumps. Sadly, these sabotaging thoughts only make you feel more insecure about your abilities. And, you may feel that something is not going as you would have planned. So, your mind is stuck on trauma from the past and self-criticism. Instead of focusing on what is bad in your life, your integrative, holistic therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme, CT will help you create a positive self talk.
Holistic Therapy In Niantic: Creating Positive Self Talk Instead of Negative Critical Talk
Say this, “I am whole, perfect, and complete as I am in this moment. This moment is great because I am alive. The present moment is something big to be grateful for. At times, you will benefit from moving your energy through walk-and-talk therapy. Furthermore, walk and talk therapy takes place on the Niantic Bay Boardwalk in Niantic, Connecticut. Together, we start at my office, and walk along the beautiful, peaceful ocean and see the shoreline of Connecticut. Read more about walk-and-talk therapy, here. In sessions, energy can also be moved and released through yoga therapy skills, breathing techniques, and more. Often, when feelings are confusing and you feel like you are going to have an anxiety attack, it is from a trauma past experience. Read about yoga therapy for trauma, here.
Over Thinking Causing Your Brain To Get Stuck?
Moreover, DBT skills are taught at Wisdom Within Counseling in Niantic along the Shoreline of Connecticut. In fact, when you find yourself ruminating on a thought or regretting the past, you are re-traumatizing yourself. Similarly, instead of harping on the past regrets, say to yourself, “This experience is an accumulation of a zillion other small moments, not one single moment or mistake. Even if I make a mistake, it is my greatest teacher. I learn new things everyday. I am a work in progress.” At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie Ziskind, licensed marriage and family therapist and yoga teacher, offers a whole person approach to therapy. She incorporates art, yoga, music, and outdoor therapies alongside talk counseling. In conclusion, Katie Ziskind, LMFT, RYT500, is unique, different, and understands your pain.
Overwhelmed with Emotion and Feel Out Of Control?
So, using a mantra, is one of the many positive coping skills you’ll learn at Wisdom Within Counseling in East Lyme. Dialectical behavioral Therapy helps teens and adults who self-harm, choose negative behaviors, and self-sabotage. After attended weekly therapy sessions in the Niantic location, you’ll have a whole new perspective on your life situation. Then, when you feel overwhelmed, out of control, scared, and even pushed to your stress limit, you’ll be able to confidently say to yourself, “I always have control over my breath. And, I can not change the past and the future is out of my control. Listening to my breath, I am breathing in. Now, I am breathing out.”
When you feel like you are not accomplishing anything, unmotivated, or even unemployed, use these phrases for a boost of self-compassion.
“There are high’s and lull’s of life. We all go through them. I have accomplished so much so far. I am doing good things, even if these things are different that what I’ve done before.”
Your Plan For Radiance Acceptance
Next time you feel overwhelmed, be your own compassionate, gentle friend by talking positively to yourself. From therapy sessions with Katie Ziskind LMFT, RYT500, you’ll begin utilizing your DBT skill of radical acceptance. In the moment, when you feel like a tea kettle about to explode with steam, repeat one of the positive statements above.
