Calming the Emotional Storm: Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills to Manage Your Emotions and Balance Your Life

Sheri Van Dijk

When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you’re losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you rea...eact to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! If you find it difficult to understand, express, and process intense emotions—and most of us do—this book is for you. Calming the Emotional Storm is your guide to coping with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from dialectical behavior therapy. This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to change the way you respond to stressful situations. By practicing these skills, you can stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help you weather any emotional storm. This book will teach you how • Establish a balanced life for an everyday sense of well-being• Let go of unwanted worries and fears• Become better at accepting yourself and others• Work through a crisis without letting emotions take over
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Kniha Sheri Van Dijk Jak zklidnit bouři emocí (Portál, 2023) je praktický průvodce pro lidi, kteří mají potíže se zvládáním emocí. Vychází z dovedností dialektické behaviorální terapie v kombinaci s technikami kognitivně behaviorální terapie a mindfulness, a provází čtenáře deseti tématy, která nabízejí konkrétní strategie a cvičení pro dýchání, pozorování a práci s emocemi. Kapitoly obsahují jasné návody, příběhy z praxe a opakovaná cvičení, takže kniha není určena jen k jednorázovému přečtení, ale k postupnému nácviku dovedností. Je vhodná pro široké spektrum čtenářů, včetně psychologů, psychoterapeutů i lidí bez diagnostikované poruchy, kteří chtějí lépe rozumět, pojmenovávat a zvládat své emoce.

When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you’re losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! If you find it difficult to understand, express, and process intense emotions—and most of us do—this book is for you. Calming the Emotional Storm is your guide to coping with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from dialectical behavior therapy. This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to change the way you respond to stressful situations. By practicing these skills, you can stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help you weather any emotional storm. This book will teach you how • Establish a balanced life for an everyday sense of well-being
• Let go of unwanted worries and fears
• Become better at accepting yourself and others
• Work through a crisis without letting emotions take over