Self Awareness Development

Challenging Negative Thoughts and Cognitive Distortions

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Hi, I’m Kate, I am a psychotherapist creating workbooks and courses for mental health and wellbeing, to help you flourish in a life you love.

Self Awareness

Welcome to your journey toward healthier thinking patterns, so you can improve your life, mood and your relationship with yourself and others.

This digital workbook is designed to help you identify, understand, and overcome common cognitive distortions and negative thinking habits that may affect your daily life, mental health, and well-being.

Do you sometimes wonder why your life is so much worse than everyone else’s? That you should be xyz by now? That maybe everyone is right, you are useless, that you might as well give up, as the world is set against you?

If these type of thoughts seem familiar, you are certainly seeing yourself and others through one or more of the cognitive distortions and negative thinking patterns that we will address here.

The Free Your Mind Workbook!

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The Power of Self Awareness on Negative Thoughts

Having therapy through my counselling and psychotherapy trainings taught me something life changing. That I could get caught up in seeing myself and others through a distorted lens without even realising. I experienced a total eclipse of reality in favour of the unhelpful stories my patterned mind liked to come up with. I would then act on those false thoughts, and it began to shape my life. I worked in jobs I hated, hung around with people who weren’t right for me, and pushed my true self away deep down inside. My mood was low and my self doubt was sky high.

Even when it got too much, and I gave up my corporate life to embark on the journey to become a therapist, I doubted myself. I had thoughts like: “But I ‘should’ get a proper job. I will fail. Everyone will hate me for going against the grain, for stepping out of the box. It is my fault I didn’t fit in, and I won’t fit in here either. I never achieve anything. No-one respects me anyway.”

I found it common in my clients too, who also distorted their reality, sometimes because of what happened in the past, or inexplicably giving far too much weight to something of no real consequence. If you are a subscriber to me weekly Letters from Therapy, you may have read Mary’s story.

Mary was a bored, unsatisfied administrator with a secret dream of becoming a teacher. She honestly couldn’t see herself doing it, despite being educated, intelligent and great with kids. We worked together on her unhelpful distorted thinking, which had filtered down into the way she felt about herself. Her deeper negative self image impacted the negative thoughts she wasn’t even aware she was caught up in. She had picked all this up in a difficult childhood. By the end of our work together, she had separated from her unkind boyfriend, and enrolled in a teacher training course in the following September.

Have you ever worried what someone you haven’t seen for ten years thinks about you? Do you find your life pointless, or find the idea of following your dreams laughable? Negative patterns and stories are like weeds, an energy sap, keeping our inner light buried, feeding low self worth, low mood and anxiety.

A Self Awareness Workbook to Break Free of Negative Thoughts and Cognitive Distortions

By completing this 40 page digital workbook, you will:

Identify common cognitive distortions in your own thinking
Understand how these thought patterns affect your emotions and behaviours
Develop practical skills to challenge and reframe negative thoughts
Find ways to build more balanced thinking habits
Track your progress as you practice these new skills in daily life

The exercises in this workbook take about 2-3 hours, so work through at your own pace, in chunks of time, and pick and choose what feels most relevant.

I am Kate, a counsellor and psychotherapist with 16 years experience helping people live life from their true self, including breaking those negative thinking patterns that may hold you back from leading the fulfilling life you deserve.

I have distilled my knowledge and experience into easy to follow, self-directed workbooks like this, to help you develop your self awareness and transform your life and relationships.

Here, I will guide you through the tasks and shifts needed to free yourself from unhelpful negative thought patterns so you can step into a life of greater clarity and freedom.

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