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 Em
brace change.
 Throw yourself into change: Allow it. Embrace it.
 Practice radical acceptance of change  when rules, circumstances, people, and 
relationships change in ways you don’t like.
 Practice getting used to change: Make small changes to practice this (e.g., purposely change where you sit, who you talk with, what route you take when going to a familiar place).
 Other ways to embrace change: 
 
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 C
hange is transactional: Remember that you affect your environment and your 
environment affects you.
 Pay attention to your effect on others and how they affect you.
 Practice letting go of blame by looking for how your own and others’ behaviors are caused by many interactions over time.
 Remind yourself that all things, including all behaviors, are caused.
 Other ways to see transactions: 
 
Note.  Adapted from Miller, A. L., Rathus, J. H., & Linehan, M. M. (2007). Dialectical behavior therapy with suicidal adolescents.  New York: 
Guilford Press. Copyright 2007 by The Guilford Press. Adapted by permission.