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

Calming The Emotional Storm is essentially a self-help book for people who struggle with Emotional Dysregulation. Emotional Dysregulation (ED) refers to a trait of labile, easily destabilized or otherwise inadequately modulated emotional responses. Possible behavioral manifestations of ED (not to be c......more

After a first read through of Calming the Emotional Storm a few months ago, I kept finding my mind return to it. I realized that was largely because rather than engaging in the book fully I jumped right into Reality Acceptance. Even while that was useful, I didn't take the in depth notes on it that......more

I've been applying these techniques all of my life naturally as self-soothing techniques to keep my sanity. Highly recommend but not a quick fix. Like long term health routines, these techniques have to be used consistently throughout the day until it becomes a natural habit. Forgive yourself if you......more

This potentially could be very helpful, but I had a really hard time connecting with the framework of mindfulness. As a social work student training to serve survivors of DV, I am trying to work on my own emotional regulation so that I can be a stable and effective practitioner. This book promises a......more

As a primer on DBT skills, from my limited background, this seems to work pretty well. Van Dijk has a much longer textbook available, and one could always go to the source in Marsha Linehan, but for those interested in a cursory overview of the basics this does seem to me like a good starting point.......more