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

Alyse Ruriani

Find peace and stability with this friendly, full-color, illustrated workbook guide filled with practical and creative exercises designed to improve your mental health and encourage healthy coping mechanisms.

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • Publish Date: Apr 4th, 2023
  • Pages: 128
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.40in - 6.40in - 0.50in - 0.65lb
  • EAN: 9781523515936
  • Categories: Mood Disorders - GeneralMental HealthJournaling

About the Author

Ruriani, Alyse: - Alyse Ruriani is an illustrator, mental health advocate, art therapist, and person with lived experience. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design and an MA in Art Therapy and Counseling. Alyse works as an art therapist and counselor, primarily working individually with young adults. She is working towards her licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Illinois and will receive her Provisional Art Therapy certification by the end of 2021. Alyse has worked with organizations such as Active Minds, the National Council for Behavioral Health, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She is passionate about approaching mental health from both the personal and professional, the clinical and the expressive, the large-scale and the intimate.