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How to Understand that Your Negative Thoughts Don’t Need to Be Controlled

This is a very easy and quick exercise. What’s awesome about it is that it’s experiential. It requires you to physically experience something rather than attempting to learn only on an intellectual/logical level. Experiential learning is a far more powerful way to change your relationship with your private experiences (your thoughts, memories, sensations, evaluations, emotions) [...]

Feeling Resistant to Doing Something? Avoidant Coping

Are there things YOU think would/might be helpful to you if you did them, but for some reason you feel resistant to trying your idea? It could be anything but examples include: – devising a budget for your spending – monitoring your food intake for a week to better understand your eating patterns – eating [...]

Developing Your Moderate Vocabulary Use Skills (Anxiety, Depression)

How you talk about the things you feel negative emotions about can have a surprisingly large impact on how you feel and on your thought processes. When I say “how you talk about things” this applies to internal self talk (how you talk to YOURSELF about the thing) and how you talk about it to [...]