I’ve shared this before and I want to share it again. I wrote this during a really low point in my life. I like to read it every now and then to help me remember to “just keep swimming,” even though it’s hard and I don’t want to sometimes. I also made a minor adjustment […]
It’s almost been a couple of months since I posted on my blog. Part of the reason is because my life has been crazy with school, homework, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and everything else I have going on in my life. And, it’s also because I feel like I’ve been struggling emotionally. This time of […]
In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), two of the things we learn are called Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance. Emotion Regulation refers to our ability to regulate our emotion(s) in difficult situations and not act on potentially ineffective urges (e.g., self-harm, rage quit a desired activity, damage a positive relationship). Distress Tolerance is a set of […]
Just call me Jenni, the Waffler. What am I waffling about? Remember my post last month about starting school again and having everything worked out and knowing what I wanted to do with my life? Yeah, I’m not so sure anymore. I’ve been in school for a month and I’m really enjoying it. I love […]
If you know me IRL, then you know that in the last 11 years I’ve tried going back to school to finish my bachelor’s a few times. And, like most things in my life, I stopped because of severe depression and an unstable self-image or self-identity. I got my associate’s degree in 1999, right out […]