Calming the Emotional Storm, Sheri Van Dijk MSW
Calming the Emotional Storm, Sheri Van Dijk MSW
List: $24.95 | Sale: $17.47
Club: $12.47

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

Author: Sheri Van Dijk MSW

Narrator: Rebecca Roberts

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Wetware Media

Published: 01/13/2016


Synopsis

When you have difficulties managing your emotions, it can feel like you're losing control of your whole life. Anger, hurt, grief, worry, and other intense feelings can be overwhelming, and how you react to these emotions can impact your ability to maintain relationships, succeed at work, or even think straight! If you find it difficult to understand, express, and process intense emotions - and most of us do - this book is for you. Calming the Emotional Storm is your guide to coping with difficult emotions calmly and responsibly by using powerful skills from dialectical behavior therapy. This method combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness practices to change the way you respond to stressful situations. By practicing these skills, you can stop needless emotional suffering and develop the inner resilience that will help you weather any emotional storm.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 30, 2015

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

Goodreads review by Terence on March 27, 2022

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

Goodreads review by Aloha on September 28, 2014

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

Goodreads review by Quin on December 21, 2021

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

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 16, 2019

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