Therapy Intro. 2

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Unconditional Acceptance (Blog)

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So now that you can identify your BS and how it gets you from the what happened to the how you feel/react, it’s time for the therapy part, and that means three core beliefs we need to keep in mind. Unconditional Self Acceptance Unconditional Other Acceptance Unconditional Life Acceptance Unconditional self acceptance is to love and accept yourself because you’re alive and a human...

Shoulding all over yourself

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In REBT, that’s rational emotive behavior therapy for the uninitiated, there is a concept called “shoulding all over yourself”, also known as “musturbation”, also known as “hot thoughts”, etc, which is a type of cognitive distortion.  (A cognitive distortion, to continue to define our terms, is screwed up thinking that leads to an unhealthy negative emotion, which don’t...