Charlie Swenson, MD

A Podcast with Charlie Swenson - To Hell and Back

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This podcast series, “To Hell and Back,” is focused on the nature of hellish experiences in life, how people get into them, and to present and discuss tools for coping with hell and getting out. The various podcasts will move back and forth between different varieties of hell in life, and different tools for coping. The tools will be drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), from other treatments, and from other life experiences.

Author

Charlie Swenson, MD

Episodes

Mindfulness as taught within DBT – Episode 52 14.05.2019 57:50

With the following zoom sessions I will teach all DBT skills, one at a time. I will explain the skill, making it as practical as I can, then talk about where and how anyone can apply it to enhance life and reduce misery, and then take questions and have dialogue with anyone who is participating live. View video version of this podcast

Mindfulness in the service of reducing suffering – Episode 51 03.05.2019 59:46

Beginning with this Zoom session I will begin to teach all DBT skills, one at a time. I will explain the skill, making it as practical as I can, then talk about where and how anyone can apply it to enhance life and reduce misery, and then take questions and have dialogue with anyone who is participating live. View video version of this podcast

To Hell and Back – The Zoom Version (April 18, 2019) – Episode 50 23.04.2019 58:16

Charlie reads from a book about skills that he is writing, then responds to questions about self-validation and about the distinction between emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills. View video version of this podcast

Getting Old Sucks – Acceptance Helps – Episode 49 15.04.2019 1:01:05

10 Reasons the DBT Skills Training Fails, and Solutions – Episode 48 28.03.2019 1:01:37

As helpful as we believe skills to be, it is common that they are not learned, or not used, or ineffective. In this podcast Charlie names ten reasons for skills training to fail, with some solutions.

Ingredients in the recipe for recovery from Hell – Episode 47 21.03.2019 1:01:02

Weaving together some recovery stories and some reflections on DBT and TFP, Charlie identifies some of the elements needed for getting out of Hell.

A conversation with Andrea Rosenhaft (Part 3 of 3) – Episode 46 18.03.2019 1:04:17

Charlie has an extended conversation with Andrea about her many years of suffering with anorexia and borderline personality disorder, and how treatment has helped her.

A conversation with Andrea Rosenhaft (Part 2 of 3) – Episode 45 06.03.2019 1:02:42

Charlie has an extended conversation with Andrea about her many years of suffering with anorexia and borderline personality disorder, and how treatment has helped her.

A conversation with Andrea Rosenhaft (Part 1 of 3) – Episode 44 27.02.2019 1:04:35

Charlie has an extended conversation with Andrea about her many years of suffering with anorexia and borderline personality disorder, and how treatment has helped her.

How to Use Dialectics to Deal with Relationships – Episode 43 22.02.2019 1:00:00

Relationship Skills in DBT (part 3 of 3) – Episode 42 08.02.2019 1:00:55

Learn to use and strengthen DEAR MAN GIVE FAST skills for achieving interpersonal objectives and for effectively saying no to unwanted requests and pressures.

Relationship Skills in DBT (part 2 of 3) – Episode 41 01.02.2019 1:01:06

Learn to use and strengthen DEAR MAN GIVE FAST skills for achieving interpersonal objectives and for effectively saying no to unwanted requests and pressures.

Relationship Skills in DBT (part 1 of 3) – Episode 40 24.01.2019 59:44

Relationship hell takes many forms. Today we begin to consider tools for coping with relationships more effectively.

The Nature of Emotions and Emotion Regulation (Part 5 of 5) – Episode 39 07.01.2019 1:00:40

Coping with Holiday Hell: Ten DBT- based Antidotes – Episode 38 22.12.2018 58:24

After discussing the reasons for bad feelings during the holidays, and the nature of those feelings, Charlie talks with John Mader, DBT therapist from North Carolina, about ten antidotes to those feelings.

The Nature of Emotions and Emotion Regulation (Part 4 of 5) – Episode 37 15.12.2018 58:46

The Nature of Emotions and Emotion Regulation (Part 3 of 5) – Episode 36 04.12.2018 59:24

The Nature of Emotions and Emotion Regulation (Part 2 of 5) – Episode 35 24.11.2018 1:01:11

The Nature of Emotions and Emotion Regulation (Part 1 of 5) – Episode 34 02.11.2018 58:51

Dealing with the Hell of Addictions (Part 2 of 2) – Episode 33 17.10.2018 1:00:45

Charlie discusses addictions and DBT’s perspective and skills for coping with the crisis of addictions.

Dealing with the Hell of Addictions (Part 1 of 2) – Episode 32 11.10.2018 59:36

Charlie discusses addictions and DBT’s perspective and skills for coping with the crisis of addictions.

Entitlement, Victimization, and Emotion Regulation – Episode 31 01.10.2018 52:01

DBT Skills for All (6 of 6) – Episode 30 22.09.2018 1:00:40

DBT Skills for All (5 of 6) – Episode 29 19.09.2018 57:59

This set of podcasts teaches DBT Skills as a set of tools for daily life and for getting through and out of Hell. Please check out Marsha Linehan’s Skills Training Manual as the original source

DBT Skills for All (4 of 6) – Episode 28 06.09.2018 1:02:03

This set of podcasts teaches DBT Skills as a set of tools for daily life and for getting through and out of Hell. Please check out Marsha Linehan’s Skills Training Manual as the original source