Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Anxiety is a heart-racing, skin-sweating, heavy-breathing, “I’m going to die” feeling overtakes some people so fast, that the fear of having an anxiety attack can begin to be even more of a fear than the actual anxiety attack itself.

There are four types of destructive, anxiety-prone personalities. Identify which one you are, then use the 4-step process to overcome not only anxiety, but any emotion that keeps you from fully excelling the way you’re meant to.

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Common tools used to combat negative emotions such as low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety assume the preceding negative thoughts are illogical so you should talk back to them. It’s a self-protection technique – a defense to your psyche and some could say, even denial. Acceptance Paradox is about taking responsibility.

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It’s in our nature to want to defend ourselves when we are told we are to blame in a situation. But there is no blame here, only personal responsibility. Personal responsibility means simply, accepting the grain of truth in the criticism and in the failings of the relationship.

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The media these days has sure created a whole lot of hype about “mindset”.   So I’m officially giving my two cents of what mindset development is, and how you can actually change it. You can because there really is a psychology to mindset. Wouldn’t you like to know what it [...]

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The more we retell the stories of our past the more important they will seem, and we create an emotional attachment to them. Perceptions are your reality. Instead of thinking “I’m an adult child of an alcoholic”, how about the new thought, “I’m an adult child of a loving, caring Mother?”

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