From Borderline to Beautiful: Hope and Help for BPD with Rose Skeeters, MA, LPC, PN2

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. Parenting is a difficult task for most folks that have a desire to raise children that are confident and have strong character. Having to reparenting yourself while parenting a child if you have trauma or BPD can be a daunting task! In this episode I share some additional tips on parenting. Check out this website that I reference on today's e...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. There are many skills required to proceed successfully through recovery and communication is at the top of this list! Poor communication leads to relationship breakdown and the breakdown of unity in family systems. Today's episode focuses on direct communication strategies and some firsthand experiences teaching communication skills to others...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. This week, Jay and I talk about kindness and how to have a better relationship with kindness and improve your relationships in 2022. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to your moral compass! Remember to spread the...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. This week, I want to check in with all of you and motivate you to refocus on your missions and to reparenting yourselves successfully in 2022. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to your moral compass! Remember to s...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. This week, I talk about refocusing on the present using mindfulness to collect positive moments with loved ones this holiday season.  Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to your moral compass! Remember to spread the...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. The BPD brain often focuses on details and misses the big picture. In this episode, I walk about my own journey with this struggle and offer concrete steps to help you reconnect with the big picture and the people that you love. In addition, I talk about being honest with your therapist to help them help you and ways you can manage your expec...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. 2021 is coming to a close, which offers the opportunity for self reflection. This week, I reflect on what it was like to get a hold of my identity and how it shaped the development of this podcast, my recovery, and my ability to bring hope to this often dark and lonely journey. I also answer a listeners' questions about Dr. Phil, doctors, and...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. Relationships are a main factor in this diagnosis, making the holiday season quite difficult for some. In this episode, I share different strategies to redefine the holidays and to improve the holiday experience. In addition, I also talk about my journey through rough stuff in life and how to remain stable through the rollercoasters that life...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. There are many conditioned responses and bad habits that need to be eradicated in recovery for success because bad habits offer bad results if they stick around. In this episode, I share different types of learning and some strategies to break bad habits. I also answer a listener's question. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is of...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. ADD/ ADHD symptoms often overlap with BPD. In this episode, I share some strategies for getting started on a new task that is overwhelming and answer a listener's question. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to you...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. We are experiencing some chaos in our lives and I wanted to share my stability through it and how recovery is stable when choice and morals are involved! Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to your moral compass! Re...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. People with BPD often lack the confidence to set goals and maintain consistency to achieve these goals. Moral discipline and character development are seldom at the forefront of recovery in clinical settings as the goal is often emotional stabilization and engaging in skills-based treatment modalities. In this episode, I talk about how moral...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. People with BPD often love deeply, though this love can be lost in the midst of episodes and frantic attempts to avoid rejection and abandonment. In this episode, I talk more about how the episodes impact our loved ones and I offer 5 ways to practice leading with love in relationships. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often pa...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. Intergenerational trauma can cloud the way we look at the world-- we become jaded and believe that most people are not good or honest or trustworthy. In this episode, I talk more about how we develop a lack of trust in ourselves and those around us. I also delve into a strategy that can be used to begin to expose oneself to what it feels like...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. Relationships require teamwork and reciprocity. In this episode, I talk more about teamwork and how to stop asking "what's in it for me?" and to start loving others for who they are and not for what they can give you.  I answer a question that came up for clients and listeners over the week about how to respond to a clinician, doctor, pr...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. It is often difficult to generalize skills required to regulate emotions and to prevent splitting and favorite host/ favorite person behavior to different people and environments. Listen in today to achieve a more stable sense of self and for an antidote to the seemingly continues chaos that occurs as recovery proceeds. I answer a question th...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. There seems to be too much emphasis on emotion regulation in episodes and not enough talk about regulating all emotions and looking at the emotions of someone in recovery as a revved up engine that becomes more intense with every rev. Tune in for a personal perspective on how to channel that intensity and how to begin identifying your persona...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. There seems to be too much emphasis on emotion regulation in episodes and not enough talk about regulating all emotions and looking at the emotions of someone in recovery as a revved up engine that becomes more intense with every rev. Tune in for a personal perspective on how to channel that intensity and how to begin identifying your persona...

Borderline Personality Disorder is a complex diagnosis. The more growth work I do, the more I realize my own deficits in processing and understanding social nuances. This week's episode focuses on a conversation between Jay & I about setting boundaries, multitasking, growth and a host of other musings. I recorded this genuine conversation to show you how we interact with each other when discussing...

Borderline Personality Disorder is often comorbid with Eating Disorder Diagnoses as well as Body Dysmorphic Disorder. This week's episode focuses on BDD signs and symptoms as well as treatments for BDD. I will also address final questions for this series about Eating Disorders. A bonus question and more information about groups is tucked in at then end as well! Here is the workbook for BDD I recom...

Borderline Personality Disorder is often comorbid with Eating Disorder Diagnoses. This week's episode focuses on empirically supported treatments for BPD as well as my personal perspective. I also tell some of my story and experience in a residential treatment center as well as what worked for me. Stay tuned next week for more Q&A and Body Dysmorphia. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery w...

Borderline Personality Disorder is often comorbid with Eating Disorder Diagnoses. This week's episode focuses on defining 4 eating disorder diagnoses and reviewing signs, symptoms and diagnostic criteria for Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and OSFED formerly know as EDNOS.  In addition, I answer a question about which diagnosis should be treated first - ED or BPD. Borderl...

Having Borderline Personality Disorder means thinking in black and white or all or nothing extremes. This week's episode focuses on a 3 step formula to begin to eradicate black and white thinking from your toolbox. In addition, I answer questions about finding a grey area when it comes to moral compass work. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in to...

Having Borderline Personality Disorder often means going back to the drawing board to recreate a stable identity. This week's episode focuses on a South African tribe that honors each individual child through song. In addition, I answer an individual's question about CPTSD and hypervigilance. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a me...

Honoring someone means building them up. Dishonoring someone means tearing them down and devaluing them. Borderline Personality Disorder recovery work is often painful and difficult. Listen in today to hear a message of hope and encouragement and to add being honorable to your moral compass! Remember to spread the word that BPD/CPTSD/EUPD are all disorders that hurt, though that we can recover fro...