BPD Diaries: Stories and Science with Steff19 Sep 2025

How to Stop being controlled by your thoughts | Mindfulness for BPD

If you're tired of being terrorized by your own mind, this episode is your first step toward freedom.

For people with BPD, it’s like your mind is on fire. It’s like being in a runaway car with no brakes. In this episode, we explore the life-changing practice of mindfulness, not as a way to empty your mind, but as a way to finally get some distance from it.

This isn't woo-woo wellness; it's a radical, evidence-based tool that builds a pause between your feelings and your actions.

Trigger Warning: We mention sensitive topics. Take care and pause if you need to.

🌱 Have questions, stories, or something you’d like us to cover? We’d love to hear from you. Email us at bpddiariespodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and let’s keep the conversation going.

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If you’d like more support in your journey toward BPD recovery, Steff offers 1:1 sessions using evidence-based tools from DBT and Mindfulness to help you heal. Email for a free 30-Minute Consultation:

📩 steff@bpdsupport.org or check out the website: www.bpdsupport.org

📚 Referenced Research Includes:

Fresco, D. M., et al. (2013). Mindfulness training increases neural markers of attentional stability in prefrontal cortex and insula. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 8(9), 935–943.

Hölzel, B. K., Carmody, J., Vangel, M., Congleton, C., Yerramsetti, S. M., Gard, T., & Lazar, S. W. (2011). Mindfulness practice leads to increases in regional brain gray matter density. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 191(1), 36 43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2010.08.006

Kliem, S., Kröger, C., & Kosfelder, J. (2010). Dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder: A meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 78(6), 936–951.

Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Wasserman, R. H., Gray, J. R., Greve, D. N., Treadway, M. T., ... & Fischl, B. (2005). Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. NeuroReport, 16(17), 1893–1897. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.wnr.0000186598.66243.19

Linehan, M. M., et al. (1991). Cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronically parasuicidal BPD patients. Archives of General Psychiatry, 48(12), 1060–1064.

Linehan, M. M., et al. (2006). Two-year randomized controlled trial of DBT. Archives of General Psychiatry, 63(7), 757–766.

Luders, E., Toga, A. W., Lepore, N., & Gaser, C. (2009). The underlying anatomical correlates of long-term meditation: Larger hippocampal and frontal volumes of gray matter. NeuroImage, 45(3), 672–678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.061

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