Listen up.

These audio files are from Ideas for Practicing Wise Mind, Handout 3A, in the book DBT Skills Training, Second Edition. People will find these helpful after session with me, or on their own journey towards calm. Feel free to use these as a resource, and may you find a mindful moment.

Spiral Stairs
Elizabeth Burgin, adapted from DBT Mindfullness Skills
Stone Flakes on a Lake
Elizabeth Burgin, adapted from DBT Mindfullness Skills

TIP SKILLS

TIP skills are a wonderful way to decrease momentary distress. Download them here.

Tips skills are used to change body chemistry so counteract the emotional arousal. TIP stands for temperature, intense exercise and pace breathing/ paired muscle relaxations.

These skills should work within seconds to minutes, and are designed to activates the human body’s physiological nervous system for decreasing arousal