317: Change your behavior, break unhealthy habits, stop the cycle of anxiety through DBT - Maddy Ellberger - a podcast by Ella Lucas-Averett

We want to change our habits, we often know what to do... why can't we do it? How can we really enact the changes we want for ourselves? DBT might be the way. 

In this episode, Maddy Ellberger shares how Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) works to help us break unhealthy cycles and create the life - and the habits - we want. 

From over-drinking/spending/eating/working to anxiety to under-performing /exercising /caring for ourselves... we talk about DBT tools that can be applied to ANY lifestyle change we want to make.

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Timestamps

[00:01:09] What is DBT  

[00:04:01] The key tenets of Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)

[00:09:02] Asking: What is the function of the behavior?

[00:12:28] Engaging in emotionally activating content to ride out the storm

[00:14:47] Distress tolerance

[00:17:37] Managing social anxiety and anxiety at large through DBT

[00:20:48] Ella’s current challenge: consuming instead of creating

[00:24:29] Creating an action and accountability plan

[00:28:23] Avoidance behavior and its function

[00:31:47] Creating an environment for success

[00:34:11] “Coping ahead” and distress tolerance

[00:37:10] Dialectical thinking and our desire for validation

 

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