This blog has over 100 free downloadable CBT worksheets and handouts – these are proven fun and extensive resources, used by mental health professionals worldwide, with over a million views and 100s of thousands of downloads. Continue reading
CBT journalling examples and tips Continue reading
A quick CBT mapping model for self sabotaging when dating / being ghosted. Continue reading
Understand the physicality of your anxiety with this CBT post and handout. Continue reading
Mapping and understanding anxiety with CBT… Continue reading
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Training imagery modelling. Continue reading
This CBT post / handout shows the top 10 bad thinking habits, with examples, through chunky emoji imagery… Continue reading
This CBT handout introduces mantras and visualisation to change self talk. Continue reading
A CBT overview of social anxiety – and a downloadable workbook (PDF) Continue reading
A 2 page CBT handout: to reframe job interview anxiety self-talk Continue reading
A short list of psychology models and descriptions (specifically for awareness and self management / evidence based work)… Continue reading
A super simple CBT handout showing examples of simplistic negative thoughts that cause feelings and behaviour. Continue reading
Are you angry all the time? That’s anxiety, it’s a stress disorder issue that you can learn to understand and manage. When stress is a disorder, it can heighten and dramatize our experiences, often causing us to live in anger mode as our default state. Low, moderate, or high. This can create unhelpful automatic neural … Continue reading
“You will be shown your place – and you will see and accept my place.” A CBT handout to understand and deal with exclusion bullying A hypothetical post looking at ‘Relational Aggression’ – “behavior that manipulates or damages relationships between individuals or groups, such as bullying, gossiping, and humiliation” [link APA Dictionary of Psychology] Situation: a … Continue reading
This CBT exercise will help you to track & map self-sabotaging things that you DO. Check out the below templates of ABC examples – they map how your perception of a situation or event causes your feelings and behaviours in response to it (‘ABC’ standing for: Activating Event – Beliefs and Thoughts about the event … Continue reading
This post is a handout on CBT tools for distorted Covid19 self-talk. [Warning: there are curse words in the examples, because humans cuss – thought I may edit – work in progress, first draft] How are you explaining the Covid19 pandemic situation to yourself? In these dramatic times it is important to regulate overly dramatic […]
I recently had a health drama, and had to CBT myself – and as a CBT ninja, (it is my job after all, so I can call myself that), I accepted reality and ‘self regulated’ – but at the most scary ‘high negative event’ time at the start, waiting for initial biopsies, with the my … Continue reading
iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com – guided self help CBT worksheets: The Low Frustration Tolerance ‘thought form’ worksheet Many people who suffer from stress disorders develop Low Frustration Tolerance (LFT) – this is a term coined by one of the founding fathers of CBT, Dr Albert Ellis, referring to when we imagine we cannot and will not and should … Continue reading
When stress becomes a disorder it causes a shift in ‘thinking’ and the lens you evaluate the world through (how you explain the world to yourself) distorts – either low, moderate or high. You’re not making everything up, you’re not seeing pink unicorns, but your filter goes gray and veers towards an exaggeration of the … Continue reading
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Tips to ask yourself about crooked thinking before you ‘thought-stop and reframe’ using rational thinking skills : Am I using one of my Bad Thinking Habits? Which one? What is the evidence for this thought or belief? Is there any evidence against it? Am I getting things out of proportion? Is that a bit … Continue reading
One of the leaders of the Positive Psychology movement, Shawn Achor, the happiness guy from Harvard, has a great imagery packed 12 minute TedTalk explaining our negative and positive filters, and some problematic approaches in psychology. I showed it to one of my clients, an Irish comedian, recently: and he declared it ‘a perfect set’. … Continue reading
The perils of perfectionism with the female executive. Rising to the top of the corporate world is inarguably harder for women than men. Breaking through the layers of glass ceilings often means that just like Ginger Rodgers, you have to do everything that Fred Astaire does, but backwards and in heels. And you want it … Continue reading
Accessible science and data through visuals: update your ‘stress in the workplace‘ information by checking out this infographic on work related disorder stats. It was created by the Eastern Kentucky University’s Bachelor of Science in Occupational Safety Program, and is such extensive outsourced research it could reasonably apply to any Western country. Enjoy… (LINKS: Click … Continue reading
Bestselling author Helen Russell has written a new book ‘Leap Year‘, about ‘how to be more resilient and change your life for good’ – in it she gets guided-self-help advice from various experts for various issues, and then she, or her willing guinea pigs, try out the advice and report outcomes and results – in … Continue reading
As I wait patiently for the decades old impractical psychology models to be truly disrupted by neurobiology, I thought I would introduce you to the ideas of Patricia Churchland – the renowned award winning professor of philosophy, author and intellectual thinker-inflencer, and originator of ‘neurophilosophy’ – who has disrupted classic philosophy with her ‘heretical’ view that the mind … Continue reading
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