The body has been in DBT the whole time. It just never got put in the center. It's only ever been implied. Think about the last time you walked a client through TIP. Cold water on the face. The breath slowing. The heart rate actually dropping. You were asking her body to change first and letting the emotion catch up; you were not having her THINK her way through it. That's bottom-up. That's the body leading and the mind following. *Half-smile* works the same way. *Willing hands*, the same. Shift what the body is doing and the internal state reorganizes around it. Even mindfulness is exposure. Every time you ask "what did you notice in your body," you're running an exposure exercise, because the nervous system barely registers the difference between remembering a hard moment and being back inside it. None of this is a new modality bolted onto your training. The scaffolding was already there! I see this as DBT deepening into what it already does. If you'd like to be on my mailing list where I'm continuing to unpack the intersection of DBT and somatics, you can sign up for my email list at the link in my bio. #DBT #DBTTherapist #DBTTraining #SomaticTherapy #BodyBasedTherapy - @rebelmente_shaelene