Have you ever woken up physically exhausted to the point where you get mentally exhausted trying to control your emotions? Emotions that are ballooned completely out of proportion only to emotionally explode into an angry crying fit to get to the point where you finally realize how ridiculously out of control you are mentally?
That’s where I am. That’s why I decided to start therapy again. Once I began to open up to her, we started talking about mindfulness. To be honest, I suck at this. I am used to being go go go all the time. But that is part of the reason I am in the position I am in now. She told me that I need to learn how to slow down.
The moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. – Henry David Thoreau
Insert Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, also known as DBT. There are four parts to DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. It is typically done in a group therapy session, and lasts about 6 months. I have been waiting for 2 months for a session to open up. Well I decided that i wasn’t going to wait that long. I went ahead and started seeing another therapist on a one-on-one basis for DBT. And it so happens that I was the catalyst for her starting a group DBT session. Whoop Whoop!
November 1, 2018 will be my first session. I am super pumped to start this new journey in my life. Therapy has helped me in the past, so I am confident that it will continue to help me as I figure out this new emotional hurdle.
In the meantime, I have created a Slow Down playlist for whenever my emotions start the get the better of me. I hope you enjoy it.
XOXO – Jenna
