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How To Challenge Automatic Negative Thoughts

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The last blog post covered cognitive distortions and how these can hold you back. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to challenge these automatic negative beliefs. Have you ever thought about how much time you spend replaying negative events in the past, focusing on parts of your life that you don’t like or worrying […]

Don’t Let Your Negative Beliefs Limit You And Hurt Your Self Esteem

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The National Science Foundation estimates that humans have approximately 60,000 thoughts per day. Most of those thoughts occur automatically. You don’t think about them. But, they involve judging and narrating the world around you. Not only do you think about the world around you, but you also think about yourselfoften. Depending on what kind of thoughts you […]

Confidence Boosters Part 2: Making Positive Changes

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This blog post is the second in a series of four on building self-confidence. In this article, you’ll learn how to make changes that will help you feel better about yourself. Self-confidence is believing in your skills, abilities, and judgments. Having high confidence can significantly improve your well-being. When you are confident, you take healthy […]

Confidence Boosters Part 1: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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This blog post is the first in a series on building self-confidence. It explores how cognitive behavioral therapy can help boost your confidence in yourself. Cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT is a type of therapy that helps you identify and replace unhelpful or negative thoughts with more useful and helpful ones. This type of therapy […]

5 Ways to Practice Self-Care This Holiday Season

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It’s beginning to feel a lot like … a super stressful and demanding holiday season. It’s that time of year. Even though it seems to start earlier and earlier each year, the real holiday stress takes hold right around Thanksgiving and doesn’t ease up until the New Year. With this frenzy comes the very familiar […]