The Talking About BPD Workbook
Reflections and Creative Prompts for Exploring Your Life with a Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (published by JKP, Feb. 2026)

This is a reflective, comforting and exploratory workbook for exploring your identity, relationships, how you feel about yourself, your diagnosis and experiences of stigma.

Inside, you’ll find reflections and creative prompts to explore the kinds of questions or worries that often come up for people with a BPD diagnosis, such as:

✨How can I understand myself and my emotions more easily?

✨ How do I live the life I want, even when faced with stigma, confusion, loneliness and pain?

✨ How can I navigate relationships with my feelings and experiences?

✨When, how and with whom can I be open about my life?

✨ How can I make sense of the many— sometimes conflicting— emotions I experience all at once?

✨ How do I untangle all the feelings I have about who I am, what I’ve been through and my diagnosis?

✨ Does anyone else feel like me or am I alone?

✨How can I feel better about myself and recognise my strengths?

This book is written in my characteristically warm, friendly style. The Talking About BPD Workbook is published by JKP and is available for pre-order now (publishing February 2026). 

Praise for The Talking About BPD Workbook

Rosie brings her familiar compassion and authenticity to this workbook, generously sharing her wisdom and guiding the reader through activities designed to cultivate self-awareness and inspire change. An essential book for anyone struggling to make sense of life with BPD.

- Katja Pavlovna, co-founder of Lives not Labels and co-author of Sorry My Mental Illness Isn't Sexy Enough for You

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As interviewees have told me, living with BPD symptoms can be stressful and lonely, so Rosie's work to support people with a diagnosis is extremely valuable. Her books are an affordable self-directed intervention and I'm really grateful for her writing and insight for people with a BPD diagnosis.

- Ellie Broughton, mental health journalist. 

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The Talking About BPD Workbook is a must-read for anyone diagnosed with BPD themselves or who loves someone with a BPD diagnosis. Rosie provides comfort and clarity about BPD by sharing her own personal story while encouraging the reader to reflect and journal about their own personal experiences.

 

As an experienced DBT therapist who has worked with many clients diagnosed with BPD, this book will be my go-to resource moving forward to help my clients feel inspired by Cappuccino's groundbreaking vulnerability, have compassion and understanding for their own struggles, and learn easy-to-implement tools. 

- Michelle Henderson, co-host of the DBT & Me podcast, co-author of DBT for Everyone: A Guide to the Perks, Pitfalls, and Possibilities of DBT for Better Mental Health

Talking About BPd
​A Stigma-Free Guide to a Calmer, Happier Life with bpd

'I am Rosie. I have BPD. I am not an attention-seeker, manipulative, dangerous, hopeless, unlovable, 'broken', 'difficult to reach' or 'unwilling to engage'. I am caring, creative, courageous, determined, full of life and love.'

This is validating and hopeful book offering a mix of support and information, alongside my own experiences of life with this diagnosis. It shares how I found my way towards a more meaningful, happier and calmer life with this stigmatised diagnosis. 

Talking About BPD explores topics such as diagnosis, treatments, self-harm and suicidal thoughts, as well as navigating relationships and having conversations about your experiences. I know that people with this diagnosis often face stigma and misunderstanding, and struggle with shame. My book has been described as 'validating, comforting and empowering'. 

Talking About BPD is published by JKP and is available worldwide in paperback, on Audible and Kindle. 

Praise for Talking About BPD

'Rosie is a strong and compassionate advocate for individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I'm forever thankful for her encouraging message of hope and recovery. As a DBT therapist, this is a book I can strongly recommend to my clients and their families.'
- Amanda L. Smith, LCSW, Treatment Consultant for BPD & Self Injury and author of The Borderline Personality Disorder Wellness Planner for Families

This book brings to life and provides an invaluable insight into the experiences of living with, the stigma that is encountered, and approaches for managing 'Borderline Personality Disorder'. Rosie's work has been pivotal in developing my thinking, understanding of and in the teaching of others about this disorder. I wholeheartedly recommend that this should be essential reading for all mental health practitioners.'
- Professor John Baker, University of Leeds, Chair of Mental Health Nursing

'I am grateful for Rosie Cappuccino's Talking about BPD, as I finally have an authentic, stigma-free book to recommend to my DBT clients. A mix of personal experience, research-based information, and skill-building material makes this a must-read for those with BPD plus their loved ones and providers.'
- Alicia Paz M.A. Instructor & DBT Coach

'I thoroughly enjoyed reading Talking About BPD. Anyone who reads the book with an open mind- patient, provider, family member or friend, will likely not think about BPD in the same way as they did before. [A] remarkable and much-needed contribution.'
- Kevin Dawkins, BPDVideo.com

'This is a book truly like no other in existence at the time of writing. For those with BPD/EUPD (or for their family/friends/partner) this will be an invaluable resource. It is authoritative and diligently researched and referenced, but also compassionate, validating, and kind. For those unable to access therapy, it will help you to understand some of the basic tools that can make living with BPD much more bearable. It is written in plain English and has helped me to understand some of the principles of DBT in a way I never have before. Thank you Rosie for writing this book, which I know will provide great comfort to readers the world over'.
- Reader review 

'Reading this book made me feel more accepted in the world and was so relatable that I couldn’t wait to read it all! Rosie is honest and brings so much hope to those that have been diagnosed and are still coming to terms with it all. [...] Thank you for reminding me that I am worthy.' 
- Reader review

'The first gentle, kind, understanding book ive ever read on the subject of EUPD/BPD. If you are in my position and have found EUPD stigma traumatic, I wholeheartedly recommend this book. It allows me to look at EUPD again with fresh innocent eyes, and remember that yes, kindness and gentle understanding are always the the way forwards.' 
- Reader review