When our worries persist and we can’t problem solve them or let them go, the next step is to use cognitive restructuring. But before we get to cognitive restructuring, let’s look at cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are our negatively biased and exaggerated thought patterns that distort reality. When we engage in cognitive distortions, we perceive […]
Category: Worry
Calm Your Worries With Mindful Walking
When we’re anxious it can be hard to sit still and just breathe. Here’s a breathing exercise that helps us slow down our breathing and calm ourselves while incorporating walking in with our breaths. We begin walking at a slow-ish but comfortable pace, and then tie our breathing in with our footsteps. So we breathe […]
Calm Worrying With Your Breath
When we’re feeling anxious, especially if we’re caught up in excessive worrying, our breathing often speeds up. This rapid breathing can elevate our heart rate, intensifying our anxiety and fueling our worries. By calming our breath, we can begin to deescalate our anxiety and reduce our tendency to worry excessively.. Best Breathing Technique for Panic […]
Worrying About Health
Reduce how much you worry about your health by breaking the cycle of health anxiety. Managing Health Anxiety Transcription Do you frequently worry about your health, preoccupied with having or acquiring a serious illness, or constantly checking for signs that something’s wrong? Worrying about every body sensation and symptom and obsessively researching them online or […]
Obsessive Thinking
While this video focuses on obsessive thinking within the context of OCD, the strategies discussed are highly relevant to managing obsessive worrying as well. Both obsessive thinking and obsessive worrying involve repetitive, intrusive thoughts that can be difficult to control. Whether those thoughts are linked to specific obsessions, as in OCD, or general anxieties, as […]
Worrying and Intolerance of Uncertainty
Intolerance of uncertainty leads to anxiety and worry. Learn how to accept uncertainty to reduce worrying and anxiety and build resilience. Reducing Intolerance of Uncertainty Transcription Do you ever get anxious not knowing what the future holds, worrying about all the what-ifs? Well, what if the key to reducing your worry and anxiety isn’t trying […]
Reduce Overthinking and Worrying
Overthinking can be a tough habit to break that can lead to anxiety and even depression. But here are six strategies that can help reduce overthinking. How To Reduce Overthinking Transcription This transcription was auto-generated by YouTube and formatted by ChatGPT. Are you an overthinker? Excessively analyzing and evaluating things, sometimes to the point of […]
Worry Record Tips
Sometimes worry records can be difficult to fill out. This video describes some of the challenges of completing thought records and how to overcome them to make the thought record more effective. And since the worry record is a type of thought record, these tips apply to worry records as well. Worry Record Tips and […]
Worry Record Worksheet
When we’re anxious and worrying, we tend to: worry bad things will happen worry over “what if” hypothetical negative outcomes overestimate the likelihood something bad will happen overestimate how bad things will be, and focus on the worst case scenario underestimate our ability to cope if something bad does happen The worry record is a […]
Cognitive Restructuring for Worries
Cognitive restructuring is one of the main components of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety. The previous post provided a brief overview of cognitive restructuring in CBT. Now we’re going to look at how to use cognitive restructuring to manage anxiety. We’ll examine some common types of negative thoughts and worries associated with anxiety. And […]