Embracing Challenges: The Interplay of Shadow Work and Distress Tolerance

Mark Pirtle

December 4, 2025

Boost your emotional resilience as you delve into shadow work and distress tolerance techniques with Dr. Mark Pirtle. Learning to tolerate distress without acting it out or shutting down is itself a profound form of shadow work.

The Rescuer's Reckoning

A coaching client who's spent her life giving to others has never learned how to prioritize herself. Shadow work is helping her uncover why saying no feels like abandonment.

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Stress Resilience

Events That Change Us

After the collapse of his business and a divorce, Dr. Mark Pirtle found healing through extended retreats—first at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, then through plant medicine.

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Stress Resilience

Name It to Tame It: Using Third‑Person Self‑Talk to Build Self‑Compassion

Talking to yourself in the third person creates instant distance from swirling emotions. Mark shares how "Name It to Tame It" carried him through a rough divorce.

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Embracing Challenges: The Interplay of Shadow Work and Distress Tolerance

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