Quiet the Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety with Dr. Ellen Hendriksen
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Cognitive Diffuso - I'm Going to Babble Like an Iditor
Cognitive diffusion is the idea that we don't have to fuse to our thoughts and even memories. And so i also like to have clients put the phrase, i'm having the thought that in front of whatever catastrophe their anxiety is predicting. But there's a qualitative difference between,. i'm going to babble like an idiot, feels like truth. We can also picky back on that and expanded out to behaviors, cause i think that second arrow often turns into what’s called safety behaviors - those things we do to try to save ourselves that end up back firing.
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