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Worksheet: Motivation

What bothers you? What are your symptoms?

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Why do you want to get rid of these symptoms? How can working on your memories help you? Draw or describe your princess here.

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Worksheet: Daily Life 1 – The Safe Deposit Box

Draw the place where you want to store away all your bad pictures.

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Worksheet: Daily Life 2 – The Safe Place

Draw your safe place here.

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Worksheet: Daily Life 3 – Within My Window

These things take me outside my Window of Tolerance:

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When I am outside my Window of Tolerance, these things help me to calm down (these things soothe me):

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 1 – Physical Sensations

These are things I feel in my body:

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 2A – Smileys

Day Date Event

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

In your workbook, this worksheet goes on the left and worksheet Emotion Regu-lation 2B goes on the right. Every day you write down the date and an event, something that happened that day, and then you colour the face on the right that fits how you felt. You can also colour more than one face.

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 2B – Smileys

Happy Angry Scared Sad

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 3 – More Feelings

These are the feelings I know and they look like this:

Feeling Face

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 4A – Angry

Indicate with a cross where you are on this line.

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I can handle this I cannot handle this

What do you do to help yourself calm down when you are angry?

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 4B – Sad

Indicate with a cross where you are on this line.

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I can handle this I cannot handle this

What do you do to help yourself calm down when you are sad?

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Worksheet: Emotion Regulation 4C – Afraid

Indicate with a cross where you are on this line.

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I can handle this I cannot handle this

What do you do to help yourself calm down when you are afraid?

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Worksheet: Cognitive Shift 1 – Positive and Negative Characteristics

Make a list of your own good and bad qualities:

Positive Negative

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Worksheet: Cognitive Shift 2 – Compliments

Compliments to myself: what did I do well today?

Date Compliment

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Worksheet: The Nutshell

Give an overview of all the bad pictures in your head:

This worksheet stays with the therapist!