Thinking Traps
This holds others entirely responsible for your feelings or problems.
What is Blaming?
This feeling might make your heart race and hands sweat.
What is anxiety?
Taking slow breaths in and out to calm your body.
What is deep breathing?
This kind of reframe would ask you what your best friend would say to you in that moment.
What is an empathy reframe?
C in CBT stands for this.
What is Cognitive?
This kind of thought assumes the worst will happen.
What is catastrophizing?
This feeling can make you want to cry or be alone.
What is a sadness?
This skill uses your 5 senses to calm down.
What is grounding?
This type of reframe focuses on everything that is accurate and true and avoids opinions.
What is Facts Reframe?
Personal interpretations of facts, which may differ from person to person.
What are opinions?
This means thinking in all-or-nothing terms (only good or bad).
What is black-white thinking?
This feeling can make your body feel hot and tense.
What is anger?
Doing something to avoid or stop thinking about a feeling.
What is distraction?
This reframe uses words that affirms the feeling but are also empowering and supportive.
What is Language Reframe?
A person's most central ideas about themselves, others, and the world. These beliefs act like a lens through which every situation and life experience is seen.
What are core beliefs?
This is when you think you know what others are thinking about you.
What is mind reading?
This is when you can name how you feel instead of acting it out.
What is identifying emotions?
Talking to yourself in a kind and helpful way.
What is positive self-talk/Positive affirmations?
This reframe focuses on the bigger picture.
What is context reframe?
These are verifiable and true statements.
What are facts?
This is when you take one negative event and apply it broadly.
What is Overgeneralization?
This happens when you have difficulty managing or returning to balance after an emotional, behavioral, physiological, or cognitive response.
What is dysregulation?
This is the skill of noticing feelings without judging them.
What is mindfulness?
This form of reframing works on actively doing something in opposition to the thought.
What is Behavioral Reframe?
Irrational thoughts that shape how you see the world, how you feel, and how you act. It's normal to have these thoughts occasionally but they can be harmful when frequent or extreme.
What are cognitive distortions/thinking traps?