The Big Feelings Survival Guide is a workbook designed to assist an individual with understanding and coping with his/her feelings. The book’s underpinning is that of Dialectical Behavior Therapy which helps individuals manage emotions and live a life worth living. The workbook introduces the main tenets of Dialectical Behavior Therapy including: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness and explains them in an easy to understand way. The book is split into 4 different sections: identifying the feeling, anger, fear, and sadness. So, as the user of the book, you first navigate to identify your feeling and then choose the applicable feeling and complete those activities for relief. The book is colorful, whimsical, and easy to utilize. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to better understand and regulate emotions. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance review copy in exchange for my honest review.

I read the DBT workbook that the author describes in the introduction. It took me forever because it is so not engaging. As a result, I never really felt like DBT was the right route to go in therapy. But Ruriani’s combination of DBT with art therapy made it way more accessible! This is a great resource!

I will not purchase this for my library because we don’t purchase workbooks, but I will keep it in my back pocket for mental health resources beyond the library.

The Big Feelings Survival Guide by Alyse Ruriani 4/5

A workbook for mental health is something I truly believe everyone can benefit from, to either understand and learn or to help themselves grow.
Throughout the workbook you can find subject such as describing what feelings are, the benefits of meditation, relaxation and impulsiveness and many more topics.

I love the graphics and bright colors in this workbook. It makes it feel like a fun activity verses work. I think this book would benefit many with the combining of CBT and art therapy which can be a huge bonus for many.

This book is exactly what I've been looking for. I am a clinical psychologist who often uses DBT for my clients. Some many valuable skills and theories may help them increase their well-being (mindfulness, wise mind, DEAR MAN, etc). However, I find it's a bit hard to teach especially for teenagers and the younger generation. I've seen a book combining CBT and Art Therapy but not much combining DBT and Art Therapy, which is brilliant and gives me ideas to use in the future.
Thank you NetGalley for accepting my request to read The Big Feelings Survival Guide by Alyse Ruriani in exchange for an honest review.

Love the graphics and many of the workbook activities. Excellent companion workbook for those who want to supplement their work in DBT with additional activities that help to reflect on what is being learned. Not enough to replace DBT and not really helpful on its own without some other exposure to DBT principles and curriculum.

The Big Feelings Survival Guide by Alyse Ruriani is an amazing feelings work-book that uses psychology to help guide you through how you are feeling and reacting to things in your life. Wonderful and thought provoking journal prompts.

I love this workbook!!!! It’s so cute, the visuals are so upbeat and fun, and the activities are just the right amount of helpful and stress free.
Since i have an e book, i’m gonna print some out and add them to my personal journal for me to do!!!
I absolutely recommend this to anyone who’s healing their innerchild <3