Life Starts Within

12/02/2025

Time to fly!

12/01/2025

11/28/2025

Yes you are!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍁!

11/20/2025

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11/19/2025

Common Types of Cognitive Distortions
Here are some widely recognized distortions:
All-or-Nothing Thinking (Black-and-White Thinking)
Seeing things in extremes: “If I’m not perfect, I’m a failure.”

Overgeneralization
Making broad conclusions from a single event: “I messed up this one time, so I’ll always mess up.”

Mental Filtering
Focusing only on the negative and ignoring the positive.

Disqualifying the Positive
Rejecting good things as unimportant or accidental: “They only praised me to be nice.”

Catastrophizing
Expecting the worst-case scenario: “If I make a mistake, everything will fall apart.”

Emotional Reasoning
Believing emotions reflect facts: “I feel guilty, so I must have done something wrong.”

Mind Reading
Assuming you know what others are thinking: “They must think I’m stupid.”

Fortune Telling
Predicting the future negatively without evidence.

Personalization
Taking excessive responsibility or blame: “Their bad mood must be because of me.”

Should Statements
Rigid rules for yourself or others: “I should never feel anxious.”

Labeling
Defining yourself or others by a single trait or mistake: “I’m a loser.”

Why They Matter
Cognitive distortions shape how you feel and act. If you can identify and challenge them, you can replace them with more balanced, realistic thoughts—a key principle in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT).

Which ones are your go to…

Next will learn techniques to change our mindset..

11/16/2025

Understanding cognitive distortions changed how I think significantly.. I don’t get stuck in fear and untruths I tell yourself…

Cognitive distortions are biased or inaccurate thought patterns that our minds sometimes fall into. They’re often automatic and can make situations seem worse than they are. Everyone experiences them from time to time, but frequent distortions can affect mood, behavior, and mental health.

In the coming posts, I will outline these and how to change mindset !

11/14/2025

Little things…mini moments…

Go buy yourself flowers…why wait ?
Add a little something to a room you spend time in.. change your environment.. maybe declutter… just a little something