The Big Feelings Survival Guide: A Creative Workbook for Mental Health (74 DBT and Art Therapy Exercises)

Find peace and stability with this friendly, full-color, illustrated workbook guide filled with practical and creative exercises designed to improve your mental health and encourage healthy coping mechanisms.

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is a revolutionary treatment that helps people identify, cope with, and move through emotions. Art therapy uses creativity and techniques like drawing to help a person further explore their feelings and express them. What happens when you link them together? You get The Big Feelings Survival Guide, a unique and powerful workbook designed to yield insight and understanding.

Covering the three classic “parent emotions”—Anger, Fear, Sadness—the exercises are deceptively simple yet richly thought out, and each has a clinical underpinning. Draw a safe space for yourself. Scribble out angry impulses. Explore the mind-body connection by matching emotions with somatic sensations. Embrace confusion by working through a maze with different paths. Act out rebellious urges by painting a messy rainbow. Plus tips, games, and other practical help.

There is no wrong way to use this book. No art skills required. Just work through it with honesty and discover practical skills to help you engage in self-care, cope with life, and take care of your mental health.

From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Workman Publishing Company
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2023
Edition ‏ : ‎ Workbook
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1523515937
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1523515936
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.55 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #31,645 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #82 in Anxiety #89 in Art Therapy & Relaxation #121 in Journal Writing Self-Help
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