Thought Defusion (ACT): Leaves on a Stream in 3 Steps
When your mind gets noisy—spinning worries, harsh self-talk, or intrusive loops—it’s easy to treat those thoughts as facts with skills for intrusive thoughts from ACT. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers a practical counter-move called thought defusion ACT: skills that...
STOP Skill (DBT): Pause, Breathe, Choose
The DBT STOP skill is a compact, field-tested strategy for those hot, fast moments when emotions surge and your thumbs are already typing that message you’ll regret. Built within Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s stress tolerance toolkit, STOP creates a small—but powerful—gap...
