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.

You can think carefully, make a reasonable choice, do your best, and things can still go wrong. No Matter How You Work It, Things Go Wrong looks at why we so quickly turn disappointment into self blame, and how acceptance can help us respond with a little more perspective when life refuses to follow the plan.