Resources | Allenger Dialectic Therapies

Self care is caring for your future self, not self soothing or regulation.

This statement has been rolling around in my head since I attended a thought provoking training this last week, challenging perceptions...

Loving Kindness Meditation Resource

Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO-DBT) utilizes loving kindness meditation (LKM) as a mood induction skill. When you are...

Interested in attending an RO-DBT skills training group?

I plan to start a new RO-DBT group on Zoom video platform, Wednesdays from 4-5:30p, starting December 8th, 2021. The entire group content...

Gratitude

Gratitude Today I was awakened early by my dog’s nose letting me know that she needed to go outside. I have been working on noticing and...

Resting Joy Face

Resting Joy Face?! What would that look like? Many of us are familiar with the term resting bitch face or resting asshole face (currently...

The Heart of the Matter

“It took about 42 years to write this and about 4 minutes to sing.” I happened across Don Henley’s Heart of the Matter song and his...

Novelty Challenge!

Why is novelty important? Mental Flexibility! Fixed mind can find ways of creeping into our life that makes particular outcomes feel like...

Resilience & Pandemic

It is easy for me to get stuck thinking of all the things that have changed or have been lost during the pandemic. These changes are...

Suicide

I want to normalize for a moment what it means to think about suicide, recognizing that socially this could be a difficult subject to...