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What is All or Nothing Thinking?
Last time we started talking about common cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are patterns of thinking we may have that leads to (untrue) negative thoughts that we take as fact. Today we’re going to focus on just one: all or nothing thinking.

8 Common Cognitive Distortions to Watch Out For
One of the pillars of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is identifying patterns in your thinking to get to the bottom of your negative thoughts. These patterns are called cognitive distortions. A cognitive distortion is a faulty way of thinking that we learn to believe is true. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps to identify cognitive distortions so you can challenge your negative thought patterns and not let them control your life.
The first step to challenging your cognitive distortions is to be able to spot them. Here are 8 common cognitive distortions to watch out for.

4 Signs That Your Funk Could Be the Result of Depression
If you’re in a funk after spending the last year away from your loved ones, you’re not alone! Many people are feeling a sort of covid-burnout at the moment. Here are some ways to tell if the funk you’re feeling is the result of depression:

6 Things Not to Say to Someone Struggling with Infertility
Learning what questions or topics to avoid to be respectful of the pain your loved one is experiencing is just as important as learning methods of support. Here are 6 things to avoid saying to someone struggling with infertility.

Managing Covid Anxiety in the New Year
This year, instead of starting off with resolutions and intentions, instead let’s focus on what this last year has taught us about our emotional and mental health needs, and make a survival kit of sorts for managing anxiety in 2021.

7 Ways to Remember Your Lost Loved One
Loss is a universal experience, but it is still not something we are ever prepared for. No matter how much we understand about loss intellectually, when it happens to us, it’s hard to know what to do. Grief is something we will all feel at some point, and there is no set timeline for working through grief. There are stages to grief, but it’s not a linear process. Part of learning to live with grief is figuring out ways to honor the person you lost while managing your grief.

6 Ways People Have Described What Depression Feels Like
If you have never experienced depression, it can be hard to understand what it is really like to experience it. When you hear the word depressed, likely you think of sorrow or grief, but that often isn’t how depression shows up for people who deal with it chronically.
While sorrow and grief can make you feel depressed, experiencing depression is much more than just those feelings.
So what is it really like? Here’s how depression has been described by those who experience chronic depression.

4 Ways to Support Someone Struggling With Infertility
It’s natural to want to support the people you care about, so if you know someone who is struggling with infertility, you’re probably looking for a way to genuinely help. Here are some ways to support someone experiencing infertility.

Mindfulness To Help Anxiety
Do you ever feel like you are overwhelmed by all of the thoughts and feelings taking up space in your head? Most of us have days where we feel like our brains won’t knock it off, but for folks living with anxiety, this can be a constant battle. Your thoughts, feelings, worries, judgments, and decisions take up a lot of space in your brain, and it can be hard to focus on anything else sometimes. One way to give yourself a buffer between you and the noise in your head is to develop a mindfulness practice.

Learning to Reparent Your Inner Child
The key to healing that hurt is to tap into your inner child. Become aware of that vulnerable version of yourself, learn about their hopes and dreams and fears. And then, to heal those neglected wounds, act as both child and parent within yourself. This is called reparenting your inner child.
Hope+Wellness is a mental health practice specializing in the treatment of depression, mood, stress, and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. This is a blog about living well and finding meaning and purpose in the face of difficult challenges. This is a blog about finding hope.
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