Identify & Reframe Cognitive Distortions Using a CBT Guided Journal
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Identify & Reframe Cognitive Distortions Using a CBT Guided Journal

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

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…

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A CBT Session: Compulsive Checking (Part 2)

ByAyşegül Karadeniz

Continuing our session with Claire. She is having images on her mind in which her house burns down, and these are followed by compulsive checking rituals. In the previous part, part 1, we tried to help her see that the image on her mind is a thought, not the reality. In this part, we are working…