Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Gratitude For A Wild & Crazy Life

If I Could Go Back and Do My Life Over Again… Would I? I think most adults have either had this thought or been asked this question. Recently, while eating my morning snack in the staff room, a teacher asked me if I would go back and do my life over again. I started to…

Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – Is This Effective, Willing Hands Half Smile & The Middle Path

Is This Effective? Ideas for practicing effectiveness is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) mindfulness technique from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, by Marsha M. Linehan. There is a step-by-step process outlined in the above mentioned worksheets that, as I applied it, truly helped me begin to observe my intense anger and hostility –…

Living With Borderline Personality Disorder – DBT’s Wise Mind & Mindfulness

Wise Mind Practicing Wise Mind is a Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) core mindfulness technique from DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition, by Marsha M. Linehan. There are so many ideas for practicing “Wise Mind” in the worksheets, I picked two to focus on for this blog: Photo Credit – Cam’s Kids Mindful Breathing –…