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Embracing Radical Acceptance: A Path to Inner Peace
In our latest blog, we dive deep into the transformative power of radical acceptance. Explore how this mindfulness-based practice, rooted in DBT principles, can help you break free from cycles of pain and suffering. Discover the art of embracing reality without judgment or resistance, paving the way for greater resilience and inner peace in your daily life!
Discovering Hope and Healing: 8 Benefits of Joining a Infertility Support Group
Feeling isolated in your infertility journey? Many in Philadelphia share your struggle and understand your emotions deeply. In this blog, we'll delve into the powerful benefits of joining an infertility support group. Whether you're starting treatments or have been on this path for a while, embracing a supportive community can bring hope, healing, and understanding to your journey.
9 DBT Skills for Handling Holiday Stress
Managing emotions during the holidays can be tough. But you don't have to go through it alone. Consider trying DBT. DBT offers proven techniques to help you regulate your emotions and improve your wellbeing. To learn more about how DBT can help during the holidays, click here. Build your own DBT toolbox and gain valuable skills for a more balanced and connected holiday season.
Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month
Just because you are struggling with your mental health, doesn’t mean you aren’t deserving of love, support, or connection. Nor does it mean you have been less value. And that specifically is also what this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month 2023 focuses on! The year’s Mental Health Awareness Month focuses on #MoreThanEnough.
DBT Skills Group: What Is It?
A DBT skills group will help you be more mindful, increase your ability to handle distressing situations, allow you to gain a deeper understanding into your emotions, while learning to regulate your emotions more effectively and give you the space to build better interpersonal skills to serve yourself and your relationships with others. By joining a DBT skills group, you will not only learn these life changing skills but you will find and be connected to your most authentic Self. Find out more here…
3 Ways to Improve Your Body Image
Body image is defined as one’s thoughts, perceptions, and attitudes about their physical appearance. The way that we perceive our bodies can fluctuate day to day and can be triggered by stress and other external pressures. If you find yourself struggling, here are a few tips to improve body image:
How to Choose the Right DBT Treatment for You
So you’ve decided you want to learn DBT skills - hooray! You’ve just taken a big step. Making the decision to start learning DBT can feel confusing and overwhelming AND exciting at the same time! You may be considering where to begin in this process. Here are a few tips to help you get started…
Is an Eating Disorder Support Group for Me?
Right now, you may be feeling that you have lost a sense of how to navigate the world around you, because you are in the throes of recovery and you have lost parts of yourself to the eating disorder. Eating disorder support groups can be a way to support your recovery journey and claiming your life back…
Eating Disorder Recovery Support Group: Connecting with Others to FINALLY Connect with Your Body
In a time when we are more isolated than we have ever been before, you may be thinking you’re the only one who feels that keeping up with recovery is really hard right now. Yet I promise you, you are not alone. Whether that’s thinking about food and your body a lot or feeling completely overwhelmed or confused by all the diet content out there as we enter a new year, know that there is someone out there who is feeling the SAME way you are right now. Learn how to access community to boost your eating disorder community
What happens in a DBT Group?
Are you thinking about potentially joining a DBT group in the greater Philadelphia area? Are you curious about what happens during these DBT groups? Maybe your talk therapist or psychiatrist suggested you check out a DBT group to help you along your journey to recovery. Whatever the case may be, I wanted to take the time to explain what exactly Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is and what actually happens during a group!
Is Group Therapy Right for Me? : The Benefits of Group Therapy for Grief and Trauma Recovery
The prospect of entering into group therapy can be intimidating. I know it can feel scary, and, perhaps it could be an important step in your recovery. Important steps are often scary. So, if you can relate to this blog, maybe group therapy is right for you!
3 DBT Skills to Enhance Your Recovery
Do you find yourself having difficulty accepting the way life is right now? Maybe you find yourself experiencing intense emotions seemingly out of nowhere that feel hard to control. If so, you may benefit from learning new coping skills to enhance your recovery. In this blog are a few DBT skills that I’ve found to be especially helpful to enhance overall recovery.
6 Ways to Break Free from Body Shame
Change your negative body image thoughts and induce self-love and acceptance. Body image Support Group beginning March 7, 2020 in Philadelphia!