Facing your difficult emotions: Learn distress tolerance

Facing your difficult emotions: Learn distress tolerance

Tolerating frustration, uncertainty and ambiguity is necessary to build emotional endurance. It makes a lot of sense to attempt to avoid things that make you uncomfortable and this does appear to work for other things that make us uncomfortable (e.g., heat, cold, pain, hunger, etc). When we apply the same method to our emotions, though, it backfires. This is the confusing nature of distress intolerance. That is, the more we fear, fight with, and strive to avoid any kind of distress, the worse it gets. Our anxiety and avoidance of the distress actually intensifies it.

Distress intolerance is the basis of many unhealthy behaviours and negative emotions. Be it procrastination, perfectionism, anxiety or anger, learning distress tolerance will help you overcome overcome all of these. Think of distress tolerance as a meta-skill you need to learn several other self development skill.

Based on the principles of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), this course gives an easy three step method to learn. 

1. Understand concepts which make you behave the the way you do based on cognitive behavioural therapy.

2. Implement what you learn, change your thinking and behaviour through easy to follow video lessons.

3. Succeed by doing the guided exercises on downloadable worksheets

Understand distress and difficult emotions, learn to accept and improve your distress intolerance. Filled with practical techniques for every occasion and type of distress

Distress intolerance is the basis of many unhealthy behaviours and negative emotions. A CBT based course to overcome it.

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What you will learn

• Understand distress and difficult emotions.
• Learn to accept and improve your distress intolerance
• Build emotional and mental resilience

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Level: All Levels

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Dr. Tarique Sani