Planting the Right Seeds: Emotions in DBT
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Key Points
- There is an obvious mind-body connection.
- Our emotions are a summary of the brain’s interpretation of everything entering our five senses and happening in our bodies.
- Caring for emotions requires taking care of the body.
- You need to plant the right SEEDS in your garden of emotions.
- SEEDS summarizes five key areas of taking care of your body: symptoms, eating, exercise, drugs, and sleep.
- The idea of SEEDS is to help clients identify aspects of their physiological functioning that may be dysregulated.
- Collaborate with the client to create a specific plan to address each of these areas.
- Instigate a SEEDS report at the beginning of each session.
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Transcript
Greetings, and welcome to the third video in this module on emotion regulation.
So far we have identified the purpose of emotions, and introduced the garden analogy as a metaphor or framework to care for our emotions the same way we would cultivate a real garden of flowers. Well, one of the first things you have to do in a real garden is to plant the right seeds. So let’s start planting.
Linehan, M. M. (2015). DBT skills training manual (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.,Reutter, K. (2019). The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for PTSD: Practical exercises for overcoming trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. New Harbinger Publications.
Okay. Well, since there is such an obvious mind-body connection, we all know that our emotions affect our bodies and our bodies affect our emotions. In fact, emotions are basically a summary of the brain’s interpretation of everything entering our five senses and everything happening in our bodies at any given moment. And all of that combined is a ton of information, right. So emotions are basically a shorthand that kind of summarizes all of that information in one distinct sensation.
Linehan, M. M. (2015). DBT skills training manual (2nd ed.). Guilford Press.,Reutter, K. (2019). The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for PTSD: Practical exercises for overcoming trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder. New Harbinger Publications.