Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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to Marsha for being a truly excellent teacher and therapist ( I have witnessed her in action doing both) This review contains themes of suicide and suicidal ideation. The treatment designed by the author was created to keep people alive. She succeeded. i129443736 |b1090061496451 |dmpmnf |gt |m |h7 |x0 |t3 |i7 |j7 |k200220 |n11-01-2023 19:07 |o- |a618.92 |rL754b Powerful and intimate . . .Linehan ably guides readers along her roller-coaster life as she conquers the male-dominated world of academia while hiding her physical and emotional scars. . . . Readers looking to overcome their past will find inspiration in this dramatic, heartfeltnarrative.” — Publishers Weekly 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

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.

Accept that you deserve the happiness you want

i128907356 |b1060006331789 |deve |g- |m |h1 |x0 |t0 |i3 |j70 |k200122 |n12-04-2020 18:16 |o- |a618.92 |rLIN So that's great and all, but I'm not looking to hire you. She does the same for DBT and sells it like it's the greatest idea ever conceived. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

my clients are tulips, and they’re trying to be roses, it doesn’t work. They drive themselves to crazy tyring, I recognize that some people don’t have the skills to plant the garden they need. But everybody can learn how to garden. In reality, the seeds of DBT were planted in 1961,” I continued, “when, at age eighteen, I was admitted here, to the Institute of Living.” Remembering what you’re working towards; your goals and your DREAMS will keep you moving forward when you want to run away. It helps you and your therapist know what to prioritizeOther people come to DBT grappling with behaviors that also leave them at the end of their rope, fed up and demoralized.