Originally Published: October 19th, 2024
2025
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) – Currently, each day I consider a Stuck Point I am struggling with, or a moment of my everyday thinking to identify a Cognitive Distortion pattern. I record these Cognitive Distortions on a CPT homework sheet where I describe how my thoughts fit that pattern and how that pattern affects me. I then review these sheets with my therapist.
English Riding Lessons – For almost a year, I’ve been enjoying riding lessons at a local equestrian school. I have observed how much I’ve grown since I’ve started. My anxiety around people has decreased as I slowly start to feel safe there. I’ve been processing grief, the loss of a retirement dream of owning horses on our land, while spending time with the school horses. I’ve enjoyed settling into the lessons combined with the pure joy of connecting with the horse I’m riding.
2024
Dialectical Behaviour Skills – practicing these skills on a daily basis to successfully manage my Borderline Personality Disorder.
A 12-Step Program – I immerse myself in the 12-Step ways of suggested living so I have .. “a daily reprieve (from drinking) contingent on the maintenance of our (my) spiritual condition.”
Crocheting a Scarf – I am a total beginner, learning via instructional videos on YouTube.
Updating my Travel Blogs – I’m currently editing and revising our Jordan adventures.
Updating my Borderline Personality Disorder Blog Series – Once complete, I will begin my deep dive into Living Successfully With Histrionic Personality Disorder series.
Simply, leaning into feeling comfortable in my own skin while making choices each day to create a meaningful life worth living.
S, 🌻
Quick Links To The Blogs In This Series Living Successfully With BPD & HPD:
Borderline Personality Disorder
Forget Everything I’ve Said – I’ve Borderline Personality Disorder & Histrionic Personality Disorder
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Introduction to Symptoms & Causes
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Strong Opinions & Identity Crisis
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Not PTSD – It’s Emotions – Borderline Style
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Empathic Abilities & Intentional Interventions
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Overlapping Symptoms & What Type Of & How BPD Am I?
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Starting EMDR – Creating New Pathways To Calm
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – The Pros and Cons of Medical THC & CBD
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Gratitude For A Wild & Crazy Life
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Behind My Mona Lisa Smile – What BPD Feels Like For Me
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – The Hulk Uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Coping With The Inner Critic
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Unstable & Fragile Identities
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Highlights Of DBT’s Emotional Regulation Skills
Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Highlights Of DBT’s Interpersonal Effectiveness Skills
Living With Borderline Personally Disorder – DBT – Skills Thermometer – A DBT Skills Anchor Chart
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Introduction & Symptoms & Diagnostic Criteria
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Shallow, Changeable Emotions
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Assumed Intimacy With Others
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Hypersensitivity To Criticism
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Manipulative Behaviour
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Sexually Provocative Behaviour
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – A Compulsive Desire For Attention
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Preoccupation With Appearance
Living With Histrionic Personality Disorder – Suggestible & Easily Influenced
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