What I Need To Practice

• DBT skills
  • Mindfulness
    • Body scan
    • Intentionally noticing and pay attention to the outside environment
    • Meditation
  • Emotional regulation 
  • Interpersonal effectiveness 
  • Distress tolerance 
• CBT skills
  • Reframing & Processing
    • Thoughts, feelings, situations, etc
• Communication
  • Being honest about:
    • The reasoning behind my actions
    • My obvious struggles
• Self-Accomodations
  • Making spaces more comfortable for myself
• Setting boundaries
  • Prioritizing:
    • my health over other people's needs
    • my comfort over social demands
• Self-advocacy
  • Asking for accomodations
• Unmasking
  • Allowing my natural facial expression to come through
  • Using my natural voice/not using the customer voice voice
  • Not forcing eye contact when safe
  • Not forcing myself to make small talk or any talk
  • Letting myself stim in social situations