NEABPD Blog
May 25 – Mindfulness of your Toes
Mindfulness can help you decrease impulsive behaviors. Practicing focusing your attention can make a difference between yelling at someone you love and waiting until you are calmer. If you delay until you are calmer, you can speak from wise mind and speak in a way...
May 24 – Finding Compassion
Think about the people who annoy you. That's right, the people who get under your skin. They may have habits of complaining continuously, or always having a problem, or of disagreeing with all that you say. Maybe they constantly have aches and pains. Maybe they talk...
May 23 – Self Compassion and Difficult Emotions
Did you know that when people are successful in therapy, they don't usually experience fewer negative emotions and more positive emotions? What actually happens is that they become more comfortable having mixed emotions, both happy and otherwise. Sometimes we may...
May 22 – Practicing Self-Compassion
Being kind to yourself is part of being compassionate. Another way to practice self-compassion is to comfort yourself physically and with compassionate words. Dr. Kristin Neff emphasizes the use of physical gestures and compassionate words. This information is from...
May 21 – Self Compassion
We've all made mistakes, hurt others' feelings, pushed ahead to get what we wanted without thinking of how it affected others and been careless at times. We've all gossiped and said hurtful words to others. When you make a mistake, how do you react to yourself? Do you...
May 20 – Remember Benign Interpretation?
One of the basic ideas in Family Connections, the NEA BPD program for families of those who suffer from emotion dysregulation, is to make the most benign interpretation possible of a situation or someone's intentions. Remember that idea from your class? Benign...