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How to Find Your Way to Healing, Hope, and Peace with Seth Gillihan

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Snow Shovel and Spring Thaw: A Metaphor for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides a useful structure and direction in addressing unhelpful thoughts, similar to using a snow shovel instead of hands to remove snow. While CBT offers effectiveness and leverage in challenging thoughts, the ultimate goal is to reach a point of recognizing that all thoughts are transient, akin to the thawing of spring snow, without the need to address each thought individually.

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