Riding a wave

Haha @Phoenix_Rising, I also dont have many shoes. I like owning them but I hate shopping for them. They say Einstien wore the exact same thing everyday. Maybe youre just closer to being a genius @Phoenix_Rising 😉

What can I say @Phoenix_Rising...I love shoes

That would make me the farthest from a genius... @Phoenix_Rising I'm happy for you to take this title

I am here with you @Phoenix_Rising xoxo

@Former-Member and @Former-Member you will watch over the ocean tonight? I super love Friday Feast. It is such a nice distraction from my super gigantic muddle. Now as I start to snuggle into my shell I can feel the weight of my muddle bearing down on me. Thank you for helping me to forget it for a little time. I know I need to just keep on keeping on and hopefully my turtle whisperer and I will be able to try and wade through at least a tinsy tiny bit of the muddle on Tuesday. That's only four days away. Good thing I don't live on Venus.

Super big thank you for watching over the ocean. Good night.

Just wanted to let you know the Little Mermaid is here and watching over the ocean for the Little Turtle tonight, @Phoenix_Rising!

Psssst @CheerBear and @Zoe7, this is a super quick flyby, but I wanted to at least get a conversation started about our DBT adventure. @Zoe7 I know you are superly duperly struggling at the moment and it is absolutely a bazillion percent ok if you aren't up to this.

I think it would be cool to title the thread "Let's do dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)." What do you think?

Then I think we need to have some introductory stuff based on the preface and pages 1-16 of the manual. And THEN I think we can get stuck into the actual skills. What do you think? I know my slow and steady methodical detail-orientated approach is probably the total opposite to your approach to doing things @CheerBear. I'm really conscious though of what an awesome resource this thread could potentially be for a lot of people and therefore I think it is worth taking our time with it. It makes me so cranky that there is such a strong evidence base attesting to the benefits of DBT and yet it is inaccessible to so many people. The idea of making it accessible in this way feels super cool to me. Also, given that there are about a bazillion skills, I can see that this is going to be an ongoing adventure like the great yoga adventure so I really think we need to pace ourselves!

Anyway, let me know what you think. Oh and by the way, I'm posting this here because the ocean is much quieter than either the nest or the octagonal room, which I'm pretty sure reflects the fact that you guys are actually sociable whereas me, not so much.

I like the slow and steady approach @Phoenix_Rising - particularly with how I am feeling at present. I have my book (it came on Friday and I completely forgot to tell you - pretty much says where I am at that a 'present' in the post didn't even rate in my mind ) I am more than happy to be guided by you little turtle - but I am sure you won't be surprised if I 'fall behind' you and @CheerBear. I really want to do this with you both - just not sure I am up to it right now - I know you will both understand if I can't keep up. In saying that - I will let you know if it becomes too much.

Hi @CheerBear and @Zoe7,

Right now I'm thinking of reading the manual from start to finish - very slooooooowly. Having said that, I don't intend to talk about all of it in Forum Land. I think it would be awesome if we could follow one of the schedules, but realistically, I know I can't commit to being able to prepare a post covering each week's content according to the schedule and I'm assuming you guys can't either. Thus right now I'm imagining that after the introductory bit, we would maybe do a skill a week, akin to the pose-a-week we are doing in our yoga group. If we found progress too slow, we could always bump it up to 2-3 skills a week. However, I think it is best to start super slow. What do you think of that for a plan @Zoe7 and @CheerBear?

@CheerBear I am certain you won't confuse anyone. I mean, look at our yoga adventure; we have the structure of a pose a week, and yet we have some people happily doing entirely different poses...and that is totally ok. I think maybe our DBT adventure might shape up like that; we will have a general structure, but random tangents will be totally ok too. I'll do the structure bit, you do the random tangents bit.

@Zoe7 It is totally fine to jump in and out of this adventure whenever you want to. I am certain we will all be doing that. By the way, when I was flicking through the manual today, I saw the "nightmare protocol" on pages 398-400 and it made me think of you. I wonder if that could be helpful for you? I can't imagine how hard it must be dealing with nightmares. For whatever reason, that isn't something that has ever been a major issue for me.

Where do you think we should put this thread @CheerBear and @Zoe7? Maybe under "looking after our wellbeing" or do you think it would fit under "our experiences and stories"????? This is superly duperly exciting that we can do this together but not.