Did you know that Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills can be useful for Autistic and ADHD individuals too?

Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills - digital

The solution lies in understanding and harnessing the transformative power of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).

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The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook Of Dbt Skills The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook Of Dbt Skills

By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. Exceptional Minds: https://exceptional-minds.org/– Exceptional Minds helps autistic artists with job training, job experience, and finding careers in animation and the digital arts. All Things Autie: https://allthingsautie.com/– Minna Abassi helps auties create sustainable and authentic lives through neurodiversity-affirming coaching. Specialties include: burnout recovery, employment, accommodations, and queer/kink/poly topics. Haley Moss: www.haleymoss.com – Haley is an Autistic advocate, attorney, author, speaker and educator who is active online as @haley.moss.Actually Autistic Blog List: https://anautismobserver.wordpress.com/–“Our goal is to assemble the most complete possible list of blogs written (in English) by (professionally or self-diagnosed) Actually Autistic people about our personal experiences with autism.” Oswin Latimer: http://oglatimer.com/ and https://www.divergentminds.org/–“Oswin is an Autistic, Choctaw, Trans, Queer activist and educator with a long history of working against supremacy in faer disability justice work.” There was nothing about this book that felt more "neurodivergent friendly" to me than any other DBT workbook. If anything, I found the wording more confusing and the tone more critical compared to other workbooks I've done. It also still uses the acronyms which have always been challenging for me to remember/understand.

The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills [Autism The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills [Autism

As neurodivergent individuals, we often experience different types of distress from living in a society that isn't designed for our differences. It isn't just emotional distress but also meltdowns and sensory distress that we experience too. One of the best things we can do to support ourselves is manage our needs and respond to our distress in a way that works for us.Not sure why you might want or need this workbook? Let me help you out. In this workbook, you can find skills to support you with: recognising meltdown triggers managing meltdowns when they happen figuring out your sensory needs preventing sensory overload developing mindfulness strategies identifying your emotions learning ways to respond to your distress - neurodivergent style This is where Dialectical Behaviour Therapy skills come in! Unfortunately, DBT skills aren't always accessible, straight-forward or neurodivergent friendly. That's why this workbook of DBT skills has been reframed to be neurodivergent affirming while incorporating sensory strategies, managing meltdowns, stimming and more. Written and designed by an autistic ADHDer, you can learn skills and tool using the five sections: Everyday Well-being Mindfulness Distress Tolerance Emotional Regulation Sensory Needs Mastering these skills will help you create “space” in your mind, enabling you to enjoy a sense of peace and happiness.