Episode 277: Freeing Yourself From Cognitive Distortions

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Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• What are cognitive distortions, and why do they interfere with your thinking?
• All Or Nothing Thinking- if it isn’t perfect, it is bad.
• Overgeneralization- applying a label to everything because it happened once.
• Mental Filter- ignore the positive and focus on the negative.
• Discounting the positives- not valuing positive things that happen
• Jumping to Conclusions- decisions not based on evidence
• Magnification or Minimization- making things more significant or less significant than they are.
• Emotional Reasoning- reasoning yourself into negative thoughts
• Should Statements- criticism in form of “you should have” or “I should have”
• Labeling- applying negative labels to yourself or others in reaction to a mistake or because something didn’t happen the way you expected.
• Personalization and Blame- thinking you are to blame for things you have no control or influence over.
• How to identify cognitive distortions
• Showing yourself compassion and understanding in training yourself to break these habits.
• Look for evidence to support what you are thinking or saying to yourself or others. Is it true?
• Transformational vocabulary- instead of automatically falling into your cognitively distorted thoughts, how you can reframe what you say and how you think.

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