Tag: dbt

  • Emotional Goodbyes

    Emotional Goodbyes

    After twenty weeks of DBT group, it was graduation day. Although I was sad to say goodbye to the facilitators and these families, and for this time with my daughter to end, I did not anticipate it being such an emotional send-off.

  • We’re Missing Our Village

    We’re Missing Our Village

    Between wildfire smoke from hundreds of miles away, boatloads of rain, another postponed baseball game meant we could stay to the end of our group therapy class and just enjoy one of two final classes before we graduate. This class has helped me see what we are missing most in our lives.

  • Wise Mind

    Wise Mind

    When I woke up the other morning after not being able to find parking in our neighborhood, I found a parking ticket on my windshield. It’s safe to say I was livid and ready to throw that ticket down on the by-law office desk and refuse to pay the stinking ticket.

  • Youth Foundations Kit

    Youth Foundations Kit

    I was listening to an abbreviated replay of Monday’s McConnaughey and friends event and it got me thinking about the tools our kids should have when they graduated high school. Why are we only learning these skills at 50 and 70+?

  • Parenting – Showing Up

    Parenting – Showing Up

    Parenting – Showing Up | A youth in my daughter’s DBT program was graduating from the 20-week program today and used that time to be brutally honest about their family life while praising us parents who showed up to therapy with their kids. Their speech both broke my heart and inspired me.