How DBT Skills Can Help Your Family with Big Feelings with Shireen Rizvi and Jesse Finkelstein: Episode 214

In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, I speak with Shireen Rizvi, PhD and Jesse Finkelstein, PsyD, about their book Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Emotions, and Relationships. We discuss what Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is, how it can help both ourselves and our kids with big feelings, and get into some of the skills it teaches including distress tolerance, check the facts, and mindfulness.

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We talk about:

• 6:00 What is DBT?
• 11:00 The importance of validation
• 13:00 How do parents manage their own big feelings?
• 16:00 How do you support a kid with big feelings, and where is the place for problem solving?
• 23:00 Managing the urge to fix things for our kids!
• 26:00 What is distress tolerance?
• 28:50 “Check the facts” is a foundational skill
• 34:00 Mindfulness is a foundation of DBT
• 36:45 How the skills taught through DBT are universal

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