I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily. I found that having a “how to use your workbook” as well as an “Orientation and key concepts” was great for making sure readers go into this book prepared. It explains the psychology terms well in the orientation such as a window of tolerance and I liked setting intentions at the beginning. The book is broken up well with the sections and chapters and has pretty illustrations too. The book is full of great exercises with something for everyone and many exercises can be useful for those who don’t have DID as well. The mandalas at the end of each chapter are a nice touch and can be used to colour in for a little decompression activity at the end of some potentially difficult work.

I got a copy of this book through NetGalley and was interested to read it to learn more about coping strategies that can be used for DID and might be useful to my clients. I found it to be written in a simple and affirming manner and I think anyone with DID could find some help here. The activities appear simple but I feel they would need to be repeated again and again which makes this more of a workbook for life than a one off activity.

This is a good beginner workbook for people with DID who want to implement DBT practices. It’s difficult to really cover DBT well in a workbook of this size since it is such a lot of material and typically takes two years of group meetings to fully cover it, plus this is adding the additional subject matter of DID. Not all people with DID will resonate with how she addresses it, the terms she uses, or her perspective of what it is like (she is a practitioner who specializes in it but she does not have DID). She is accepting and affirming though. This will give a tiny bit of access to DBT skills, but it will probably still be very helpful for many.

I read a temporary digital copy of this book for review.