The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Wellness Planner
365 Days of Healthy Living for Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Amanda L. Smith, LCSW
Foreword by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.
365 Days of Healthy Living for Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Amanda L. Smith, LCSW
Foreword by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.
365 Days of Healthy Living for Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
Amanda L. Smith, LCSW
Foreword by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.
Description
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Wellness Planner is a helpful tool for anyone who struggles with emotional sensitivity and/or Borderline Personality Disorder to use as they work toward creating a healthier, more meaningful life—a life worth living—by balancing acceptance and change.
Use it to help manage anxiety, maintain sobriety, or just keep your life in better balance. The Planner guides you in consistently tracking and reporting on your journey to healing for 365 days! It's a journal that helps you keep everything in one place. It keeps you focused on where you are and where you want to go. Start on any date with the monthly, weekly, and daily calendars designed to help you plan for success as you practice skills and make a commitment to daily self-care.
In Part 1, discover the value and details of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
In Part 2, take the Self-Care Assessment and then get started with the Daily Self-Care Tracker. After thirty days, take a new Self-Care Assessment to see how you've grown!
Use it to:
track your emotions and behavior
monitor your progress
bring structure into your day
The BPD Wellness Series
The Author
Amanda L. Smith, LCSW, is the founder of Hope for BPD where she provides treatment consultation and case management for clients around the world. She also publishes My Dialectical Life—a daily email dedicated to DBT skills.
Her career in mental health began when she served as the executive director of the Pinellas County, Florida affiliate of the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI). In 2007, she founded Florida Borderline Personality Disorder Association—a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated towards providing advocacy, education, and support for persons diagnosed with BPD and their families.
Amanda received her MSW at Baylor University and is currently working as a DBT therapist in Waco, Texas.
Book Info
Publisher: Unhooked Books
Publication date: September 15, 2015
Pages: 272
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781936268863
Author: Amanda L Smith
Foreword by Blaise Aguirre M.D.
Some years ago, I worked with a young woman who had a hard time tracking her experience from day-to-day. She used the diary cards I gave her, but because of crisis-ridden life, she couldn't keep her diary cards together and it was hard to measure her progress week over week.
She moved to trying to track her emotions and behaviors on her smartphone, but again having to scroll back and forth between the most recent week and what happened 16 weeks ago (for instance) was cumbersome. She loved to journal, so I suggested that she do that instead; however, even though this was a more productive way of monitoring, it had two drawbacks. The first was that there were days she would write an entire novel, and days that she would write a single sentence. I wished that there were a way for her to consistently be able to report on her journey to healing.
She needed the benefit of a journal with all its pages in one tome, the utility of a diary card with easy prompts to focus her attention on specific target behaviors, and the practicality of a smartphone, keeping days in order without skipping tasks or days.
Amanda Smith has done just that with The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Wellness Planner: 365 Days of Healthy Living for Your Body, Mind, and Spirit. It is a practical tool for the emotionally sensitive person looking for an easier way to track your emotions and behavior as well as monitor progress over time. The day-to-dayness of the planner brings gentle structure that does not overwhelm with burdensome demands. At the same time, it makes the skills from dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) accessible for in-the-moment review as well allowing the user to continue to monitor their progress with self-assessment tools.
This is a wonderful little planner. Individuals will find it to be an important and personal yardstick on their journey to recovery. I also imagine giving it to members of a DBT skills group as a graduation present as a practical gift and a memento, the utility of which will last a lifetime.
Blaise Aguirre, MD
Medical Director
3East DBT-Continuum
McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School