Molly Ruiz 7/18/26 Molly Ruiz 7/18/26

Emotional Validation: A Practical Guide to Validating Yourself and Others

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Molly Ruiz 7/12/26 Molly Ruiz 7/12/26

What Are Emotions Good For? Why Identifying Primary and Secondary Emotions Is the First Step to Emotion Regulation

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Molly Ruiz 7/12/26 Molly Ruiz 7/12/26

Three Common Parenting Mistakes When Raising an Emotionally Dysregulated Teen (and What to Do Instead)

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Molly Ruiz 7/5/26 Molly Ruiz 7/5/26

Emotion Dysregulation: When Your Emotions Get the Best of You

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Molly Ruiz 6/20/26 Molly Ruiz 6/20/26

“Capital T” vs. “Lower Case t” Trauma: An Introduction to Traumatic Invalidation

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Molly Ruiz 6/14/26 Molly Ruiz 6/14/26

How Everyday Interactions Go Off the Rails: The Transactional Model

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Molly Ruiz 6/5/26 Molly Ruiz 6/5/26

How (and Why) to Stop Criticizing Yourself with Self-Validation

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Molly Ruiz 5/22/26 Molly Ruiz 5/22/26

Improving Relationships With DBT: GIVE and FAST

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Molly Ruiz 5/22/26 Molly Ruiz 5/22/26

One of The Hardest (and Most Important) DBT Skills For Reducing Your Emotional Suffering: Radical Acceptance

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Molly Ruiz 5/17/26 Molly Ruiz 5/17/26

How to Resolve MAJOR (and Minor) Disagreements: Collaborative Problem Solving

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Molly Ruiz 5/3/26 Molly Ruiz 5/3/26

Why Emotion Dysregulation Is Like a Pendulum: The Dialectical Dilemmas

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Molly Ruiz 4/25/26 Molly Ruiz 4/25/26

How To Get What You Want From Other People, According to DBT

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Molly Ruiz 4/19/26 Molly Ruiz 4/19/26

How to Get Your Child to Respect Your Limits

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Molly Ruiz 4/16/26 Molly Ruiz 4/16/26

When Behaviorism Goes Wrong (AKA: Coercive Family Process)

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Molly Ruiz 4/16/26 Molly Ruiz 4/16/26

How to Get Other People to Change: Behaviorism 101

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Molly Ruiz 3/21/26 Molly Ruiz 3/21/26

What To Do When You Hurt Someone You Care About 

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Molly Ruiz 3/20/26 Molly Ruiz 3/20/26

Why 'Don't Worry About It' Is the Worst Thing You Can Say to Someone You Love

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Molly Ruiz 2/19/26 Molly Ruiz 2/19/26

Accurate (and Inaccurate) Expression

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Molly Ruiz 2/7/26 Molly Ruiz 2/7/26

Hot off the press: DBT for Adolescents is the only “well established” treatment for reducing teen suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self-harm 

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Molly Ruiz 2/5/26 Molly Ruiz 2/5/26

What To Do When You’re Really Angry At Someone You Care About

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