Fresh from a break-up with my partner of two years, I break down two of the DBT skills I used in the midst of the hardest conversations with my now-former partner: participation & validation.  I go over how I used participation to be fully present in conversations with my partner, and how I practiced validating both my partner's experience and my own.

Helpful resources from this episode:

DBT references

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets – online pdf version

DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets – buy the manual from a Black-owned book store!

DBT handouts used in this episode

Mindfulness Handout 4 - Taking Hold of Your Mind: "What" Skills

• Participate

Interpersonal Effectiveness Handout 6 - Guidelines for Relationship Effectiveness: Keeping the Relationship (GIVE)

• V: Validate

Interpersonal Effectiveness Handout 6A - Expanding the V in GIVE: Levels of Validation

Interpersonal Effectiveness Handout 17 - Validation

Interpersonal Effectiveness Handout 18 - A "How To" Guide to Validation

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