Four weeks into exposure therapy and I’m feeling pretty low. So given that I’m doing exposure to traumatic invalidation, I try my hand at practicing self-validation. I go over what validation is (and isn’t), and then practice validation step-by-step.

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:

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

• 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;

Emotion Regulation Handout 5 – Model for Describing Emotions (alternate version: E Wheel);

Emotion Regulation Handout 6 – Ways to Describe Emotions

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