DBT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Across
  1. 4. Strong desire to engage in eating disorder behaviors
  2. 6. Tolerance, Ability to cope with distress without making things worse
  3. 7. Distracting with activities, contributing, comparisons, emotions, pushing away, thoughts, and sensations
  4. 13. Taking care of physical health to reduce emotional vulnerability
  5. 16. Focusing on what works in the situation
  6. 17. Doing one thing at a time with full attention
  7. 19. Awareness, Recognizing hunger, fullness, and body cues
  8. 21. Supporting emotional stability through sleep, nutrition, and wellness
  9. 22. Positives, Engaging in activities that build positive emotions
  10. 26. MAN, Skill for asking for needs assertively and effectively
  11. 28. Using the five senses to calm yourself
  12. 29. Crisis survival skill using temperature change, intense exercise, and paced breathing
  13. 30. Staying present in the moment without judgment
Down
  1. 1. Improving the moment with imagery, meaning, prayer, relaxation, one thing at a time, vacation, encouragement
  2. 2. Willingness to challenge rigid food or body rules
  3. 3. Skill for maintaining relationships with gentleness and validation
  4. 5. Action, Acting opposite to unhelpful emotional urges
  5. 8. Skill for maintaining self-respect in interactions
  6. 9. Noticing thoughts and feelings without reacting
  7. 10. Mind, Logical, fact-based thinking
  8. 11. Restructuring, Challenging and changing unhelpful thoughts
  9. 12. Mind, Balanced state between emotion mind and reasonable mind
  10. 14. and Cons, Weighing the benefits and consequences of acting on urges
  11. 15. the Facts, Evaluating whether thoughts match reality
  12. 18. Taking a non-critical stance toward yourself and experiences
  13. 20. Fully engaging in the current moment
  14. 23. Acting quickly without thinking due to emotions
  15. 24. Putting words to your internal experience
  16. 25. Acceptance, Accepting reality as it is without resistance
  17. 27. Mind, Thinking driven by intense emotions