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

The Big Feelings Survival Guide is a friendly, full-color illustrated workbook that guides readers through DBT-based exercises to improve mental health and provide coping mechanisms for tough times. It includes creative exercises like drawing a safe space and illustrating feelings, as well as practical skills like distress tolerance tips. No art skills are required, and the book can be used with honesty to discover practical skills for self-care, coping with life, and mental health.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 128 pages
Publication date: 04 April 2023
Publisher: Workman Publishing

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.

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 165 x 216 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781523515936