In previous posts, I’ve written about the cognitive side of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). The main technique involves identifying negative automatic thoughts and reframing those thoughts into ...

Cookie Monster wants to eat better! The long-time resident of Sesame Street is ready to eat fewer of those famous chocolate chip cookies. He has talked to his doctor and his famous friends about his ...

The Netflix documentary Unknown Number: The High School Catfish explores the case of two thirteen-year-olds, Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny, who received thousands of anonymous, harassing messages ...

Cognitive distortions, or thinking errors, can take a toll on our mental health. Here are five such thinking patterns and ways to overcome them. We are all vulnerable to certain “thinking errors,” ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract When anxious or depressed people try to recall emotionally ambiguous events, they produce errors that reflect their habits of interpreting ...

How clearly do you think you see the world? Well, I have scary news. We don’t see things as they are. We don’t even see. We perceive. Your eyes, ears, and senses receive information from the outside ...

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. I was walking into a Dublin café last Tuesday with a small coffee stain on my sleeve. For the next twenty minutes, I ...

One of the keys to effective leadership is the ability to gain awareness and transformation in the area of our mindset. What we think about essentially affects our state, decision-making and energy ...