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I named this unicorn Ice Cream because in the car ride home following winning her my brother pissed me off so much I threw my ice cream at his head (which is NOT a good skill) and some of it got on her. All families have drama sometimes and nobody is perfect always. Therapy is important. The Fabricant fam stans for therapy. I'm always happy to talk about my cycles with Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) - please feel free to contact me to ask me about it anytime.
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This past Saturday was #WorldBipolarDay. Happy Bipolar II to me! (A little dark humor. ) This photo was taken two years ago last month. Despite how it appears, I was in one of the darkest places I’ve ever been mentally... I look back on photos from different periods of my life and can’t believe I made it through them. I am so strong and resilient, and even though it took over a year to get to a place of stability, and even though I still have hard days (like today), I’ve never given up. Like, wow! ☺️ To anyone struggling right now, know that you are important and you are worthy of the assistance you need. You got this!
Earlier this week, I completed my fourteenth and final month of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills group. Every Monday night, I huddled in a small room with a handful of people working toward common goals: to live in the moment, to better cope with painful emotions, and to improve relationships. It was and continues to be challenging to be skillful in tough situations. But the whole principal of dialectics is that one can hold two opposing ideas to be true - that is to say, I can acknowledge that I’ve come a long way but also acknowledge that I’ve got a long way to go. Thank you to @bflesh182, my family and friends, and my coworkers for your support over the last year plus. Next chapter, let’s go!
change is scary. change is also transactional. remember that you affect your environment and your environment affects you when you're feeling overwhelmed with change. this week, we challenge you to (1) pay attention to your effect on others, (2) practice letting go of blame by looking at how your own and others' behaviors are caused by many interactions over time, and (3) remind yourself that all elements in your life are brought about by specific reasons, including behaviors and thoughts. taking each moment as new can help you be mindful of your situation and act out of your wise mind, helping you accept that reality itself changes with each moment.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. This photo is from my cousin’s wedding in San Diego last month. After the sun went down, the music came on, and I found myself singing and dancing with my husband. Suddenly, I was taken aback as I realized: wow - in this moment, I am happy. I know this sounds dramatic, and maybe it is. But in November of last year, I wasn’t able to feel happiness. I was in a place of pure suffering, and I didn’t have the skills to get out of it. That month, I started Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (it’s cool - look it up!). I began seeing a new DBT therapist and joined a DBT skills group. And since then, I’ve learned a lot about myself and how to better manage difficult situations and emotions. Medication and moving my body has helped too. I have my days - especially recently (hello, panic attacks!). But look at the difference a year can make: last year I was surviving, and today I am living. And for that, I’m very thankful indeed. Holidays like this one can be difficult for those who live with mental illness, or for those who have difficult relationships with food, or difficult relationships with family, or no family at all. So just know - you’re not alone in this world, and I’m grateful for each and everyone of you.
Today, I CHOOSE Joy.
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My best friend @mama.mazie gifted me the most perfect, beautiful sign last year that now hangs above my bed as a daily reminder and says just that: “Today, I Choose Joy.”
Joy is an active choice. Full disclosure: I have been dealing with an extremely painful, debilitating, frustrating physical health issue over the past year. I’ve also lived with Major Depression since I was sixteen. Sometimes I wake up and I want to cry, pound the walls, yell at the heavens, or do absolutely nothing. And you know what? Doing those things for a bit is TOTALLY okay (meh, maybe not the wall pounding - get a pillow or some boxing gloves and a bag, instead, and save your poor hands ). Expressing and letting out legitimate, justifiable anger or frustration at a situation is healthy.
But then, we can take a breath. Close our eyes. Feel the LOVE that we are made of.
And Choose Joy.
I have loved learning about DBT, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy, through the years. “Dialectical” has to do with “the balancing of opposites”.
We can be sad, and also choose Joy. We can be in pain, and also choose Joy. We can even be angry...and still also CHOOSE Joy. It’s so very freeing to do so. And you know? When we choose to see Joy everywhere - in the people around us, in trees and flowers, in the sky, in our work, even in things we usually take for granted like the water we drink and the clothes we wear and the air we breathe - everyday LIFE becomes one big experience of Joy. No matter what we’re going through.
So today, and every day, yeah - I Choose Joy.
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Join me and @carolinarodrigues1108 in our #chronicallyhappychallenge until Christmas.
Post one photo per day of something that makes you happy, you being happy, or about being happy.
I love this because it is a skill for Dialectic behavioural therapy that helps borderline personality disorder, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. I'm a huge advocate that mental health is the most important thing when dealing with a chronic illness.
If you are feeling sad push it away and act opposite to the emotion. Faking it till you make it really will change the neuropathways in your brain. It's as simple as making yourself smile. You may not feel like smiling but if you smile it is using the same pathways as is you were happy. It reprogram your brain.
Do the little things like I just did to make me happy. I went and took a bunch of photos and I tried to look happy but I wasn't. So I got dressed out of hospital clothes and brushed my hair and put on my glasses. I instantly felt a boost of confidace and was way happier with the photos. Now as I'm posting this I do feel happier.
I'm getting released from the hospital today. I just have to wait for Tim to pick me up after work.
Keep calm
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Be happy!! Join us in this holiday happy photo challange
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Wise words from @drcarolineleaf! This idea is one of the main assumptions of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), which is one of my specialities. .
You may not have caused all of your problems, but you have to solve them anyways. ✨ .
Do you agree with this assumption? Is it a hard pill to swallow? Tell me about it. ⬇️
I love this. It makes me think of one of the assumptions of dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), which is one of my absolute favorite models for therapy: .
“You may not have caused all of your problems, but you have to solve them anyways.”
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This is one of the most powerful messages in DBT in my opinion. Although our traumas and life experiences are not always caused by us- it is our duty to make changes in our life so we can manage the way these events have affected our lives.
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I love messages like these that give clients power!
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