146. Unhooking from your “I’m Not Enough” Story: Changing your Relationship to Thoughts

About this episode

Dr. Amy Backos explores cognitive fusion and how self-critical thoughts can be unhooked through various therapeutic approaches.

Ask me a question or let me know what you think! Have you ever believed a thought about yourself so completely that it felt like fact? I’m not good enough. I’m a fraud. I can’t handle this. In this episode, Dr. Amy Backos explores what Acceptance and Commitment Therapy calls cognitive fusion—the very human tendency to get tangled up in our thoughts and treat them as truth. Drawing from art therapy, neuroscience, and decades of clinical practice, Amy explains how self-critical thoughts form, w...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Amy Backos

Topics covered

• cognitive fusion
• self-criticism
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• art therapy
• neuroscience

Keywords

• self-worth
• thoughts
• mental health
• therapy
• self-improvement

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