Doing The Work On Negative Automatic Thoughts Before Your Spiral & Obsess

About this episode

Carly Ann discusses how to break the cycle of negative automatic thoughts and obsessive thinking.

Do you ever say something and then have hundreds of obsessive thoughts along the line of “I was awkward” “They don’t like me” “I’ve pushed them away”? Or someone doesn't text back and you are flooded with “I’ve done something wrong”, “they’re losing interest”, or "why did I have to do that" This kind of spiral feels so real...but what actually happened might be nothing, but you have a tendency to create a massive, panful story in your mind anyway In this episode I (Carly Ann), talk about how to break this cycle and I share quite a famous method by a book I read years ago but has stuck with me. I hope you love it and find it as useful as many others around the world. Links below: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Work with Carly Ann⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠FREE: Self-Worth RESET⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Join Newsletter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Join my Telegram HERE⁠

People in this episode

Host: Carly Ann

Topics covered

• negative automatic thoughts
• mental health
• self-worth
• cognitive behavioral techniques
• obsessive thinking

Keywords

• negative thoughts
• self-worth
• mental spiral
• cognitive techniques
• anxiety

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