When painful thoughts feel true but aren't (with Christine Padesky)
About this episode
The episode explores the role of cognitive behavioral therapy in managing painful thoughts and emphasizes the importance of practical experiments in therapy.
Read the full transcript here. Why do our minds sometimes need experiments more than insight? What changes when therapy becomes a way of practicing life outside the therapist’s office rather than explaining life inside it? If CBT is fundamentally about learning skills, how much of good therapy depends on what happens between sessions? Why can a five-minute action matter when depression says that nothing is worth doing? What does it mean to test a thought instead of trying to replace it with something merely positive? How do moods make certain evidence visible while hiding the rest? Why does anxiety grow when we organize life around avoiding danger rather than strengthening our capacity to cope? What would change if we treated catastrophes not only as predictions to challenge, but as scenarios we could prepare to handle? How do safety behaviors keep fear alive by teaching the wrong lesson? And what might therapy become if it started not only with what is broken, but with the strengths, habits, and forms of resilience a person already has? Links: Christine's Book: Mind Over Mood Christine's YouTube Channel Christine A. Padesky, PhD is a psychologist, author, and international…
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