Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Michael Schreiner | November 27, 2017
Softening Your Attitude Towards The People You Care About
When we get to know people really well superficiality necessarily makes way for authenticity and suddenly we’re exposed...
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Michael Schreiner | August 7, 2017
Combating Low Self-Esteem
The challenge in combating low self-esteem is that self-esteem is itself ephemeral. It’s a feeling, a state of...
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Michael Schreiner | August 4, 2017
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In A Nutshell
Here is a useful diagram to understand the underlying premise of cognitive behavioral therapy: Most of us don’t...
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Michael Schreiner | August 3, 2017
The Buildup of Resentment in Relationships
Resentment is an invisible thundercloud hanging over an intimate relationship. It grows darker and more ominous as time...
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Michael Schreiner | July 13, 2017
The Vicious Cycle of Negative Self-Talk
Negative self-talk is the abusive running conversation you have going on in your own head about yourself. If...
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Michael Schreiner | July 12, 2017
Let Fear Inform Your Life Not Control Your Life
You’ll hear a lot of people say brave things like “I’m not going to let fear tell me...
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Michael Schreiner | December 1, 2016
Catastrophizing And Anxiety
Catastrophizing is a faulty thinking pattern where various worst case scenarios are imagined and then treated as if...
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Michael Schreiner | November 9, 2016
Grounding Yourself In The Present Moment To Combat Anxiety
When unwanted life events make the future cloudy existential anxiety skyrockets. This anxiety is often funneled into obsessive...
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Michael Schreiner | October 2, 2016
The Tyranny Of The Shoulds
Shoulds are the inflexible, authoritarian, joyless rules for thinking, feeling, and behaving that people subject themselves to at...
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Michael Schreiner | May 23, 2016
‘I Should Have Done Better’ Keeps You Trapped In The Past
The problem with ‘I should have done better’ is not simply that you’re being too hard on yourself,...