Like many of you, I'm home all the time right now due to pre-existing health conditions and the stay-at-home order issued by my government due to the spread of COVID-19. I've been doing several things with my time: resting, training and loving on my dog, playing Sims, learning the computer coding language Python, and working my way through DBT® Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets, Second Edition . I want to share some of my conclusions as I worked through this book. These blog posts won't be comprehensive analyses of the information in each section. They will be the takeaways that meant the most to me. The first section, which is on behavioral analysis and stopping unwanted behaviors, is personal and potentially triggering, so I'll be starting the blogs with the second section, Mindfulness and Wise Mind. According to the book, the goals of practicing Wise Mind and mindfulness are to "reduce suffering and increase happiness", "increase control of y...
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