Negative thoughts often feel like facts, but in reality, they are usually just automatic patterns our brain falls into. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps us break these patterns by identifying “cognitive distortions”—the biased ways our mind perceives reality. Below is the step-by-step framework we use in our free guided journal in Viven: CBT Guided Journal…
When we feel anxious, we have certain automatic thoughts more frequently. If you have noticed, our thoughts during anxiety will usually fit into this formula: Also, when we are anxious, due to intense feelings of fear, we see the world in a biased way, and believe these unhelpful thoughts more easily. This is called cognitive…
Cognitive distortions is a concept from cognitive behavioral therapy, which implies that we usually tend to think in some biased way. Normally, having cognitive distortions is neither a deficit nor a disorder, but it is just a by-product of how our brains work. Our brains are programmed in such a way that when it tries…