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Why people react with irrational emotions

Posted on May 8th, 2018

Cecilia just got quite emotionally destroyed. The guy she's been dating for a month now didn't reply her text message for one hour. Her friends are quite concerned about her and tell her that she's being too controlling, too clingy and too desperate to...

I don't believe that people are authentic

Posted on March 13th, 2018

That realization somehow came up in a therapeutic session. The therapist said that they cared about me, and I just could not hold it in and I said that she didn't have to lie. I said I knew what this was about, that I was paying money and she was sayin...

'Moment of Excellence'

Posted on August 31st, 2017

We had a presentation at work about coaching technique called "Moment of Excellence". It's about remembering vividly a moment from the past when we greatly succeeded at something, next naming our qualities we proved there, then finding an anchor that r...

Q2 Checkpoint

Posted on July 15th, 2017

Progress since the last checkpoint. I have learned that:I have read about NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and it is mind blowing. Have not actually learned it, but it is interesting. Also hypnosis and self affirmations fall under this category. It ...

Schema therapy exercise

Posted on June 28th, 2017

Okay, I will try to verbalise how I understand how schema therapy works. Because having knee problems at the moment it is funny how I make analogy between physiotherapeutic massage that releases tense muscles that accumulated over time and schema ther...

Feeling bad about myself

Posted on June 21st, 2017

I have not been focusing on my emotions recently. I thought about it a few days ago, and then asked myself: okay, so after that few days break from being with myself.. hi myself, how are you? Uh. Bad, ugly, disgusting, repulsive, weird, wicked.. well...

Schema therapy - first impressions

Posted on May 15th, 2017

I think that now I start to get what schema therapy is about. As an adult I often had that unresolved feeling of wanting someone to have said something in the past. To have said something when I was feeling bad, neglected or ridiculed by my parents. I...

Schema therapy - the beginning

Posted on March 29th, 2017

Okay so after a few sessions I just got the first verballisable impression of what it is about. DBT improves the behavioral patterns, and schema therapy tries to heal the faulty emotional response patterns that lie below the behavioral misadaptation. O...