Mastering Borderline Personality Disorder - Paperback

by Jim Stoner (Author)

This researched and evidence-based workbook guides individuals toward well-being, empowerment, and transformation through twenty-eight exercises that emphasize adaptive responses, resilience, and resourcefulness.

Workbook users learn to incorporate self-care, healthy coping strategies, boundary setting, and techniques for maintaining intimate, stable, and fulfilling relationships.

Learners acquire new skills that boost life satisfaction, balance positive and negative emotions, promote self-acceptance and personal growth, and align their actions with their values and abilities.

• Gain control over unhealthy behaviors that interfere with your daily life and seek treatment.
• Identify and address your "triggers" and develop a plan to manage them better.
• Learn to express your feelings healthily by identifying, responding to, and better managing your emotions.
• Focus on problem-solving, enhancing your ability to address challenges in everyday life more positively.

Learning Objectives

• Lay the foundation for your journey to recovery by helping you gain control over life-threatening behaviors, behaviors that interfere with you getting treatment, and behaviors that interfere with your daily life.
• Understand the definition of quality of life and contrast it with your quality of life.
• Learn about your "triggers" and develop a plan to manage them better.
• Learn to express your feelings healthily by identifying, responding, and better managing your emotions.
• Focus on problem-solving, enhancing your ability to address challenges in everyday life more positively.
• Better regulate extreme emotions that arise from frustration due to feeling unheard or misunderstood.
• Strengthen and stabilize your sense of identity.
• Bring all the lessons and skills of the preceding stages together to help you connect with the outside world, your loved ones, and yourself.

Alt-PsyHealth draws upon the mental health coaching model to empower clients to set goals, build skills, and foster resilience through structured, collaborative, and solution-focused guidance. We are not licensed mental health professionals, though experienced, and our deliverables are based on research and are evidence-based methods.