How to Stop Negative Thought Patterns

Not Quite Zen

In the first two episodes I talked about whether or not therapy works, shared my personal journey with mental health, and covered different types of therapy programs. Today I want to shift gears, and start covering different ways you can take action to improve your mental health. We’re going to start by talking about how to stop negative thoughts.

Getting sucked into negative thought patterns can really derail your mental health and make it extremely challenging to make any progress in your life. Luckily, acceptance and commitment (ACT) therapy offers a powerful way to stop negative thought patterns, and it’s called Cognitive Defusion.
In this episode I cover:

• What Cognitive Defusion is
• How to create distance from negative thoughts
• How to define and identify negative thoughts
• How to notice and label thoughts
• Hot to evaluate whether thoughts are factual and let them go

If you've sturggled with negative self talk then I promise this episode will help you.
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