DBT House / DBH-A01-5
My House My Meaning — Review journal
Review an attempt at my house my meaning and choose what to keep, change, or leave aside.
10 minutes · Journal prompts · Adults; supported use as appropriate
Fictional example: Riley prefers a community courtyard to a detached house.
Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. A house can be an optional metaphor for organizing coping and support.
Before looking back
Choose one ordinary attempt or decide to review the fictional example instead. This journal has no scores, required disclosure, or expectation of progress.
Revisit the practice
Choose a house, apartment, garden, or other personally meaningful structure and assign your own meanings to its spaces.
Notice context and impact
Record what actually happened, including an unhelpful or neutral outcome. Note resources, power differences, accessibility, and changed conditions rather than attributing everything to personal effort.
Choose a revision
What metaphor fits your experience without assuming everyone has safe housing? Keep the approach, change one part, ask for support, or set it aside. A mismatch is useful information.
Prompts for this resource
- What I tried, or what happened in the fictional example:
- What I noticed before, during, and after; what remains uncertain:
- What helped, did not help, or was outside my control:
- What metaphor fits your experience without assuming everyone has safe housing? My optional adjustment or support request:
Conceptual background
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training: Fundamentals — Behavioral Tech Institute
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.