Sometimes one door closes and another opens. And sometimes you get stuck in the hallway wondering what on earth happens next. This Sheesh! post explores coping with uncertainty, the urge to make discomfort disappear, and how DBT distress tolerance skills can help us wait without making the hallway harder.

Give the brain a blank space and it will often fill it with something. Usually not chickens, unfortunately. This Sheesh! post looks at why uncertainty can turn into assumptions so quickly and how DBT’s Check the Facts skill can help us figure out what we actually know before the chickens take over.

Life has a way of handing us feelings, relationships, and experiences that refuse to fit neatly into one category. What’s in Alanis Morissette’s Junk Drawer? explores the DBT idea that two things can be true at the same time and why learning to hold both may help us get unstuck from either-or thinking.