How To Challenge “Should” Statements
Challenging should statements helps you confront reality without shame or guilt.
Challenging should statements helps you confront reality without shame or guilt.
Outlining the relationship between events, thoughts, and feelings highlights how thoughts are just interpretations and not facts.
Explaining how thoughts create feelings "pops open the hood" of the mental health "engine" to increase resilience.
The vertical descent technique is reveals the source of a client's negative automatic thoughts.
In CBT, noticing thoughts is the first step in challenging them.
Learn seven strategies to shave away the layers of pain that will make things tolerable and maybe even enjoyable.
Focusing on our five sense, we can steer our bodies away from exploding.
Distraction strategies are key when emotions begin to get out of hand.
The TIP skills won't get rid of your emotions but will disrupt them long enough to clear your head and move in the direction you want.
STOP skills help you literally stop dead in your tracks long enough to keep from being sucked into a bad situation. Learn how.