Cognitive Distortions Feelings may seem complicated. It may be helpful to know that feelings are accompanied by thoughts. You may not notice the positive or...
You Need to Choose You Our current culture has been set up not to benefit humans but to benefit business. I'm talking about the culture where we are expected to...
Too Many Changes at Once? I believed that I was trying to make too many changes at once. I wanted to cut back my use of alcohol. I wanted to only partake on...
Author Quotes - Richard Wagamese "Listening, pondering and sharing become my connection to the oneness of life, and there is no longer any part of me in exile." - from...
Daily Thoughts Today someone said a word that frightened me. I didn't not hide from it. I acknowledged it (the word and my fear) and let others know. ...
Daily Thoughts You write if you want to be a writer. You run if you want to be a runner. You do the action to become that thing you want to be.
Author Quote - Esther Perel Self-esteem is being able to see yourself as a flawed person and still hold yourself in high regard.
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Personalization - You see yourself as the cause of some negative external event which in fact you were not primarily responsible for. “I...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Labeling and Mislabeling - This is an extreme form of overgeneralization. “I am a loser. He is a jerk. She is stupid.”
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burn Should statements - You try to motivate yourself with shoulds, musts, and oughts. When directing should statements towards yourself (or...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Emotional Reasoning - You assume that your negative emotions reflect the reality, the way things really are. “I feel like a bad person,...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Magnification (Catastrophizing) - You exaggerate the importance of things (like a goof up) or Minimization - you inappropriately shrink...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Jumping to Conclusions - You make negative interpretations even though there are no definite facts to support your conclusion....
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Disqualifying the Positive - You reject any positive thing that happens to you as a fluke, or not really counting. Anything negative...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Mental Filter - You pick out a single negative detail and dwell on it exclusively so your reality to everything is not good. Another...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns Overgeneralization - You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern. You didn’t get the promotion, you think you never will,...
Beware the Cognitive Distortions - David D. Burns All or Nothing Thinking - You see things in black and white. “I can never get things right.” “He is always a jerk.” “I will never get...
