Validate Your Ticket, Please!
What do you do when the person who is responsible for caring for you…doesn’t? How do you learn to validate your experiences?
What do you do when the person who is responsible for caring for you…doesn’t? How do you learn to validate your experiences?
It can be easy to fall back on our symptoms and use them as an excuse for our behavior. Yet, it is our responsibility to manage those symptoms.
Finding a healthy way to express our needs in our relationships is an important step on the road to emotional help. Thankfully, Marsha Linehan of DBT fame has a great acrostic to help us with this: the DEAR MAN skill.
When our responses do not fit the facts or when acting on them is not the best or appropriate response, it’s time to practice Opposite Action.
We all go through moments when we’ve lost our motivation. While there can be many reasons for its loss, we can use simple tricks to get it back.