Silence is Skillful offers a complete and accessible overview of the skills and theories. This book is a useful first step in the journey of integrating silence and its peacefulness into your life.

Psychoeducational Worksheets

Browse more than 50 psychoeducational worksheet bundles. These packets are clinically grounded tools designed to bring clear, practical insight into specific psychological patterns and challenges. They are more focused and applied than the book, offering structured guidance around topics such as emotional regulation, relationship dynamics, identity, and nervous-system awareness.

These worksheets are intended for individuals who want access to trusted clinical understanding without relying on an ongoing appointment-based relationship. They can be used independently, as a supplement to therapy, or alongside professional support to deepen insight and support skillful change. Each worksheet reflects real clinical experience and emphasizes clarity, compassion, and practical integration into daily life—without oversimplifying the complexity of the human experience.

  • A colorful educational poster titled 'Understanding & Navigating Intrusive Thoughts' for kids, with a cartoon image of a worried child and a thought cloud.

  • Guide titled 'Supporting a Loved One with Depression: A Guide for Caregivers' with information on understanding, symptoms, myths, and misconceptions about depression.

  • Educational poster titled 'Understanding Feeling Sick from Stress and Emotions' with playful text 'Mind Health for Kids!' and an illustration of a worried boy holding his stomach.

  • Illustration of a man and woman in distress, holding their heads and expressing concern.

  • An informational flyer titled "Navigating Depression Together: A Guide for Teens and Parents" with a purple header and purple and gray sections. It includes illustrations of a person with a scribbled brain inside their head and a person sitting with their face in their hands. The flyer discusses depression in teens, its brain-based nature, and neurological perspectives.

  • A worksheet titled 'Embracing Integrated Rest' with text about rest, mindfulness, and energy management. Includes an illustration of a smartphone with a low battery icon.

  • A colorful educational poster titled "Upsairs Brain vs. Downstairs Brain" explaining the two parts of the brain with a cartoon illustration of a brain featuring a house with stairs and a living room. The poster emphasizes mind health for kids and includes text about the brain's functions, comparing it to a house with upstairs and downstairs levels.

  • A worksheet titled 'Supporting Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)' with text about BPD symptoms, social patterns, and supportive strategies, authored by Kerry Wischusen, LPC.

  • Illustration of a person resting their head on their hand with various sleep-related icons around, like a moon, stars, alarm clock, and a cloud, set against a background of text about sleep and cognition.

  • A colorful informational flyer titled 'Mind Health for Kids!' explaining anxiety in children. The flyer includes a cartoon illustration of a worried child pulling their hair with text that says 'I HATE MY ANXIETY!' and encourages kids to keep reading for coping tips.

  • Text-rich educational article about rejection sensitivity, its psychological background, evolutionary basis, and neuropsychological mechanisms, with some illustrative icons of people.

  • Educational worksheet on motivation and borderline personality disorder (BPD), with sections on clinical introduction, brain, body, motivation, and emotional regulation, featuring green and white colors.

  • Informational graphic titled 'Understanding and Overcoming Social Anxiety for Teens' with purple header and footer. Contains text about social anxiety from neurological and psychological perspectives, and an illustration of a person overwhelmed by social thoughts.

  • Document titled 'Navigating Conversations with Narcissistic Traits: Cultivating Empathy, Seeking Truth, and Building Connection' discussing strategies to manage narcissistic traits, reduce harm, and improve relationships through empathy and genuine connection, with sections on rationale, reduction of harm, and improvement of connection.

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Psychoeducation Videos

This collection of psychoeducation videos explores Skillful Silence as a practical psychological skill—one that supports steadiness, clarity, and more responsive ways of relating to yourself and others.

The videos draw from clinical insight and mindfulness-based frameworks, translating complex inner experiences into grounded, usable language. Topics include anxiety, emotional intensity, sense of self, relational patterns, rest, and learning to respond rather than react.

All videos are freely available on YouTube and are designed to be engaged at your own pace. They are not a substitute for therapy, but they often serve as a supportive complement to personal or professional work.

New videos are posted weekly so be sure to check back for more!

Silence is Skillful on Youtube

Self-guided Courses (coming soon)

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Beyond Coping: A Wholeness-Based Approach to Anxiety

Anxiety is often treated as something broken that needs fixing. This course challenges that assumption. Using the psychological foundation of Silence Is Skillful, you’ll explore anxiety as a natural byproduct of a complex, meaning-making mind—and learn why true relief doesn’t come from constant coping, reassurance, or control. Through guided reflection and practical practices, you’ll develop the skills of silence, steadiness, and non-reactivity that allow anxiety to lose its grip without needing to disappear.

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Developing a Steady Sense of Self

This self-guided course supports young people navigating identity, uncertainty, and internal pressure in a world that constantly demands definition. Rather than asking you to decide who you are, it teaches you how to create stability underneath changing moods, relationships, and life stages. Rooted in Silence Is Skillful, the course focuses on attention, nervous system regulation, and psychological boundaries—helping you feel more anchored in yourself without needing certainty or approval.

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Rest Without Struggle

This self-guided course explores rest as a natural biological rhythm rather than a problem to solve. Drawing from the clinical wisdom of CBT-I while moving beyond rigid optimization, the course helps you reintegrate rest into daily life and reorient to sleep as animals do—responsive, rhythmic, and unforced. You’ll learn how to reduce struggle around sleep, restore trust in your body’s capacity to rest, and practice both integrated daytime rest and more stable, natural sleep at night.

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