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Emotional Leakage

RO DBT posits that many folks are experts at inhibiting emotions, delaying gratification and general...

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Being Kind to Perfection

Usually I am a superb driver, but with my sister and my nieces in the car, my level of distraction a...

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The Purple House: Learning to Forgive Yourself

My favourite colour has always been purple. When I was in elementary school, living in a boring, g...

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The Importance of the Question

I love commercials that make an interesting philosophical point. One that aired recently in the Unit...

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Working Toward Psychological Health: Prioritizing treatment goals based on a definition of psychological health

When working with individuals who have treatment resistant depression and have an over controlled pe...

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Yikes, you want me to do what? I’d rather wait until later

Are you the kind of person who gets really excited when a person hands you a gift, you open it immed...

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Overcontrolled is a term that I’ve come to discover describes me well

I was born with a temperament that generally makes me leery of risk taking, I tend to inhibit emotio...

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Learning About Friendship: Lessons from Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy

Recently, my 14-year-old niece was visiting and overheard me talking about Radically Open-Dialectic...

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Heat on/Heat off

Most people can recall a childhood memory that stands out as significant in terms of pleasure or pai...

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Why Too Much Self-Control Can Be a Bad Thing

Self-control refers to our ability to restrain acting on momentary urges, impulses, and wants in fav...

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