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Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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Practical and engaging . . . Linehan leads readers through her life and details how key moments brought her to develop DBT [Dialectical Behavior Therapy], bringing mindfulness into psychotherapy. Weaving the instructive with the personal, she alternates anecdotes with universal tools for approaching life with a combination of acceptance and motivation to change.” — Booklist

In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. This is remarkable but not really surprising. I find it extraordinary that she was able to hide the scars on her arms. On the one hand, this shows a formidable strength of character — to hide her history from her colleagues when some would ask what happened, and from the many other academics who wanted DBT to fail. But this is also upsetting: why should she have had to cover up her medical history? When she was honest in her application for a graduate program when asked to explain her missing years after school, she was rejected from universities without really a plausible reason.

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So when I finally did, it was pretty huge, at least in my mind. I remembered how hard it was for me to get the words out, and how hard it seemed for that person to get their words out after I told them. First, they made sure I wasn’t planning on doing anything like that again. After I assured them I wasn’t, I said that I wasn’t really sure why I did it. i128907344 |b1060006331798 |deva |g- |m |h10 |x2 |t2 |i15 |j70 |k200122 |n11-15-2023 19:03 |o- |a618.92 |rLIN The remarkable memoir of the woman who developed DBT--the true story of how she transformed herself from a suicidal teenager to a world-renowned psychologist thanks to her own lifesaving therapy.

The second part of this series: Why it’s hard to dream: Building a life worth living in DBT (Part 2) It is used worldwide. I loved that her famous DBT workbook was published the day before her 50th birthday, just as she dreamed. But my talk that June day was going to be different. I was going to tell people for the first time how I really came to develop DBT. Not just the years of research and trials that went into it, but my personal journey, too. “Writing this talk has been one of the most difficult things I have done in my life,” I began. Knowing yourself below the platitudes of expectation is a special kind of messy. It’s difficult to look into yourself at the broken places and pain that never healed.In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living. She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at the YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking." Marsha survived the kind of descent into hell that is characteristic of these patients, but/and she found her way out and vowed to use her life to help bring others out of that same hell. And she fulfilled her vow with the development of the first truly effective therapeutic method for these patients. The components of the interventions she uses are designed to allow the patients to build for themselves, with the help of a well-trained therapist, a life worth living. Research clearly indicates that her method works. Throughout her extraordinary scientific career, Marsha Linehan remained a woman of deep spirituality. Her powerful and moving story is one of faith and perseverance. Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really work--and how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living. That’s the part of my little equation where building a life worth living comes into play. The realization that I never wanted to die and that I actually wanted to get better was incredible . And that was my biggest reason for recovering: wanting to . The unison of wanting to be alive – a lesson I am eternally grateful for having learned from an amazing mentor of mine – and building a life worth living (credits to the so admirable Dr. Linehan!). This connection made a light bulb go off in my head. A light that guided me towards recovery. Are you one of us?” a patient once asked Marsha Linehan, the world-renowned psychologist who developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy. “Because if you were, it would give all of us so much hope.”

Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” When is your life worth living? What makes it that way? I could ask you a million questions to suss out a set of answers to sell you tools, but the truth of it is so much smaller— and so much more massive.This process can be grueling, particularly since knowing ourselves is often pictured as this beautiful journey of enlightenment. In reality, it is a heavy and often difficult undertaking. To read this book is to understand how a life is built. In dark, there is light. Everything in Marsha Linehan’s life and remarkable memoir uncovers the dark—the hell of the unhappy self and the hell of inadequate help—and brings us into the light, with humor and detail in describing her grappling and growth, and her courage and vision of how to create a treatment for even the most unhappy of us.” —Amy Bloom, New York Timesbestselling author of White Houses Mother Teresa had a beautiful phrase that captures some of this: “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” I wished I had learned these principles years ago. It would have greatly improved my emotional quality of life. I wished I had been able to teach them to my daughters. DBT skills are fundamental life skills! Skills our mother didn’t teach us because she didn’t know/understand them herself!

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