The Talking about Bpd Workbook - by Rosie Cappuccino (Paperback)

About the Book

This stigma-free workbook includes creative activities designed to encourage self-expression and deepen your self-understanding, while exercises based on DBT and ACT offer ways to handle distressing emotions and intense urges. Mood trackers and other practical tools help with the day-to-day challenges associated with a diagnosis of BPD.

Book Synopsis

Living with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder can be tough. Facing stigma from professionals and people you meet, as well as your own intense emotions and urges, it can be hard to feel good about yourself. Award-winning blogger and author Rosie Cappuccino knows the struggle all too well, and can offer validation and realistic advice for living a fulfilling life with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

This stigma-free workbook includes creative activities designed to encourage self-expression and deepen your self-understanding, while exercises based on DBT and ACT offer ways to handle distressing emotions and intense urges. Mood trackers and other practical tools help with the day-to-day challenges associated with a diagnosis of BPD.

Built from personal experience and a deep understanding of how life with BPD can really feel, this book will help you look after yourself even when everything feels impossible.

Review Quotes

The Talking About BPD Workbook is a must-read for anyone diagnosed with BPD themselves or who loves someone with a BPD diagnosis. Cappuccino provides comfort and clarity about BPD by sharing her own personal story while encouraging the reader to reflect and journal about their own personal experiences. As an experienced DBT therapist who has worked with many clients diagnosed with BPD, this book will be my go-to resource moving forward to help my clients feel inspired by Cappuccino's groundbreaking vulnerability, have compassion and understanding for their own struggles, and learn easy-to-implement tools.--Michelle Henderson, co-host of the DBT & Me podcast, co-author of "DBT for Everyone: A Guide to the Perks, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of DBT for Better Mental Health"

As interviewees have told me, living with BPD symptoms can be stressful and lonely, so Rosie's work to support people with a diagnosis is extremely valuable. Her books are an affordable self-directed intervention and I'm really grateful for her writing and insight for people with a BPD diagnosis.--Ellie Broughton, mental health journalist

Rosie brings her familiar compassion and authenticity to this workbook, generously sharing her wisdom and guiding the reader through activities designed to cultivate self-awareness and inspire change. An essential book for anyone struggling to make sense of life with BPD.--Katja Pavlovna, co-founder of Lives not Labels and co-author of Sorry My Mental Illness Isn't Sexy Enough for You

About the Author

Rosie Cappuccino (Author)
Rosie Cappuccino writes the award-winning blog Talking About BPD, sharing her
experiences of life with a diagnosis of BPD since being diagnosed in her early 20s. She writes for Happiful, has previously written for Healthy Place, and has appeared on podcasts such as Mentally Yours and The Stronger Minds Podcast. Rosie works as a teacher in the UK, has a Master's Degree in Medical Humanities and is also on the Editorial Board for the BMJ Medical Humanities. She is the author of Talking About BPD. www.talkingaboutbpd.co.uk