The Big Feelings Survival Guide: A Creative Workbook for Mental Health (74 DBT and Art Therapy Exercises)
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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.
From the Publisher
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Publication date : April 4, 2023
Edition : Workbook
Language : English
Print length : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 1523515937
ISBN-13 : 978-1523515936
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.45 x 0.65 x 8.55 inches
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Customers find the workbook insightful, with one mentioning how it allows for personal introspection and creativity. Moreover, the book is fun to read, with one customer noting how it presents DBT skills in an engaging format. Additionally, customers appreciate that it is suitable for all ages.
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Alex –
Teenager Actually Uses It!
She uses it. She actually uses the workbook! I got one to work through, myself, too, and this workbook is exceptional. Very well formatted, informative, and approachable.
Peace Finder –
Powerful, FUN!, and aligned with researched DBT and Art Therapy principles
The Big Feelings Survival Guide by Alyse Ruriani is so much more than I expected. I initially thought this was written mostly for children and teens but this is totally for adults too!! I found the art to be really cathartic and the connections to DBT clear and helpful. This will be something Iâll bring to my therapy sessions for discussion and exploration but this would also work for someone who is not in therapy but wants to learn to modulate and honor feelings but not get overwhelmed by them. One of the best books of this type that I have tried.
kkrocks –
DBT skills in a fun format
I enjoy the exercises in this book that help me identify my feelings and how to respond better instead of reacting. The art approach is fun.
Caitlin S. –
Great for middle schooler!
I bought this for my younger daughter after some struggles her first year in middle school. She loves art so I was hoping itâd be a good fit. So far she loves it, it breaks things down in a way she can understand, gives her ideas for coping skills and an outlet for some of these big feelings. Wish there were more things like it!
Maudie –
Great stickers
These are great stickers. I love stickers so I canât say much more about them, but buy them.
Amazon Customer –
AWESOME FOR ALL AGES!
This book is amazing! I just ordered 7 copies for my sisters, nieces and friends who also enjoy art. I love the prompts and ideas, itâs so helpful to get you thinking and move into your more creative side. I feel like we donât get that opportunity enough but itâs helping me to feel like myself again and I want to share that feeling with others 🙂
Angry Face –
With guidance, this can work well for all ages.
The big feelings survival guide is designed to help individuals work through difficult and uncomfortable emotions and to move beyond them. While I applaud Ruriani for making this an easy, accessible book, it’s likely best used with the help of a trained therapist if the user is an adult, or with guidance from a trusted adult if the user is a minor.The book opens with a brief explanation of DBT, and then moves on to how to use the book. Initially, the second exercise gave me a “huh” moment – you’re asked to write emotions connected to the base unpleasant emotions of Fear, Anger and Sadness on flower petals. But how is one to know which emotions come from fear, which from anger and which from sadness? And can we even name them? Fortunately, there’s a name for common emotions rooted in each of the major ones further in the book, and exercises associated with how to deal with them.What I think is missing though is the connection between fear, anger and sadness. Three of the emotions tied to fear, for example, are “excluded”, “persecuted” and “threatened”. “Abandoned”, “hurt” and “rejected” are associated with sadness. For me, any of those emotions will, in the right circumstance, almost instantly transform to anger.Still, the book is an excellent starting point for children, teens and even adults to work on recognizing difficult emotions, and learning to cope with them in a positive way.
keirstin –
Thoughtful, fun, and most importantly insightful
The perfect workbook for those that may be in between therapy or working together with a mental health support team. The exercises are well thought out and allow for personal introspection and creativity. Itâs been a great guide in allowing for me to better identify emotions and motivations. Just ordered another copy for a friend as I think it will be helpful for them too!
miss s scott –
This workbook is absolutely brilliant. I have had a really difficult time and found it difficult to manage my emotions. This book gives practical advice, techniques and activities that have been extremely helpful. This book is helping me to develop better emotional control and has helped me feel more positive about a very difficult situation.
Linsay Patterson –
Bought to work with my daughter…..also I use it at work with the youth. Excellent ! Recommend
Amul Mistry –
Love the ideas in the book great for anyone who suffers with expressing feelings or Autism. The quality is lovely and the book itself is very nice. Would highly recommend
Alison –
I use exercises from this book almost daily with my clients! Absolutely love the colorful yet simple exercises. There is something for all ages from about 10 years and up! Highly recommend!