During my first month with my therapist, I was given this worksheet to read and work on. She noticed that while I was talking with her, that my thoughts followed a lot of these. I wasn’t aware that my anxiety had brought me down paths of low self-worth and stinky thinking.
After a couple of weeks of talking with her, she gave me this worksheet to work on.
While, at first, I thought these weren’t going to work out, I was very surprised to see just how easy they were to use . My homework at that time was to identify which sort of thinking I used on the regular and which ones would best challenge them for me.
So, what do you think? Do any of the maladaptive thinking patterns sound like you? which ways would you like to untwist your thinking?
Complex family scenarios are confusing to you. Your efforts to heal things keep backfiring. With many issues to contend with, the question of whether it’s worth it to keep up the good work is staring you in the face. At times like this it’s often best to back off and let nature take its course. You can’t expect to make your influence felt when the aws of karma have more to say about what’s going on than your high hopes and your good intentions. Pulling out of the fray will give others a chance to look at themselves and do wonders to turn both your life, and this situation, around.
The body was a cage, and inside the cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and marvelled; that something, that remainder left over the body had been accounted for, was the soul.
