DBT Skills in the Moment: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook to Handle Emotional Overwhelm, Repair After You React, and Start Again When You Slip

You already know the skills. The trouble is they disappear the second you need them. You've read about pausing, breathing, and stepping back. Then the message lands, your voice rises, or a long day finally breaks you, and everything you learned is gone. Afterward comes the rest of it: the morning-after shame, the replay at 2 a.m., the workbook you quietly stopped opening two weeks in.DBT Skills in the Moment is for adults who feel emotions faster and harder than the people around them seem to. Maybe you snap and regret it. Maybe you send the midnight text. Maybe your version is quieter: shutting down, going silent for days, apologizing for everything, or replaying the same conversation all night. This dialectical behavior therapy workbook gives every one of them a plan.Richard Banks writes practical psychology focused on emotional regulation and the nervous system. Here he builds on the evidence-based DBT skills developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan and keeps their standard names (TIP, STOP, Check the Facts, Opposite Action, DEAR MAN, Radical Acceptance), so everything carries over if you ever join a DBT group or start therapy. You'll follow three people, Dana, Theo, and Priya, through complete episodes: the warning signs, the moment itself, and the hours after.If other workbooks left you staring at blank worksheets, this one is built differently. Every exercise comes with a completed example beside the blank version, and every practice has a five-minute option for bad days. The examples come from lives with real limits: tight budgets, shift work, caregiving. And every chapter is aimed at the hardest part of emotional regulation: using your skills for overwhelm, anger, anxiety, and shutdown when your brain is least able to cooperate.Your next hard moment is coming. Buy DBT Skills in the Moment today and meet it with a plan.