All day, you talk to yourself. We all do. We all do. “Don’t forget to pick up the milk and bread.” Or, “I want to mention that book to my brother.” Sometimes what we say to ourselves can affect the quality of life. We tell ourselves that we aren’t good enough, that our circumstances define us, that we can’t fix or change the things that seem to be weighing us down. This is the negative self-Talk can be a constant companion and have a profound impact on our lives, regardless of whether or not we are aware.
How can we overcome this negativity?
The 24 compelling halves-Hourly lectures Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Daily LifeProfessor Jason Satterfield This guide will show you how to build your cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), toolbox. It will give you the skills and knowledge you need in order to change the stories that are holding you back from living your best life. Just like your physical toolbox, you’ll learn exactly which tools to gather and how and when to use each one most effectively. These tools aren’t magical quick-fixes, and they can’t accomplish everything you might want. You can make your life more powerful and peaceful if you know how to use them.
Our previous course with Professor Satterfield On this subject, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Techniques for CBT was introduced in Retraining Your Mind, which explains how it works and what it can do. This latest addition to our exploration of CBT can help you incorporate these techniques into your daily life. It offers a range of new tools as well as many scenarios to help you experience CBT in action. Both courses can be viewed separately or together, and each can be understood and used independently.
CBT: The Problem-A Solving Approach
CBT was originally developed in the 1960s by a psychiatrist who had been using psychoanalysis to help his depressed patients—a process that could sometimes take years. Through his experiments, he discovered something completely unexpected: His patients with depression were experiencing a constant stream of negative thoughts about themselves and the future. His patients began to feel more rational, felt better emotionally, and were able to function better as a result. This therapy was long-lasting.-lasting.
The CBT approach helps us because it’s almost never just the situation at hand that directly affects our emotional health—it’s our thoughts about the situation. We’ve all seen this in our own lives when we’ve witnessed one divorced friend sink into a years-Another friend is re-building his or her life after a long, painful descent. We’ve seen one family member with a chronic illness withdraw into the smallest possible life while another person with the same illness maintains an interest in life and emotional growth. Divorce and chronic illness both present significant difficulties, but it’s how the person addresses those challenges that can make all the difference.
While CBT cannot put the marriage back together after divorce or miraculously cure physical illness, the CBT tools you’ll learn to use in this course will help you address many of life’s challenges in a way that best nourishes your emotional health. Those challenges might include:
After the death of a loved-one, grief.
Coping with chronic and severe painMarital conflict;
Workplace problems;
Parenting challenges;
End-This is-There are many life issues.
Build Your Personal CBT Toolbox
As Professor Satterfield As the evidence shows, CBT can be viewed as an equilateral triangle, with points representing cognition, behavior, and emotions. Each point influences the others, and information and effects flow in both directions. It is that intricate relationship between our behavior, cognition, and emotions that forms the foundation of CBT’s problem-Problem solving tools You will need the right skills and tools for We can work towards any situation. “Wise Mind”—the equilibrium where we can best access the strength of both our rational and emotional selves to address the problem at hand.
These skills are essential-This course is cognitive-based and will teach you about behavioral and cognitive tools that can help you improve emotion regulation and function. This course will teach you how to use and gain benefit from CBT tools.
Self-assessment,
Record keeping,
Activity scheduling
Problem-Problem Solving Therapy,
Exposure Therapy,
Somatic Quieting,
Behavioral Activation.
While you may not be able to use all CBT tools right away, there are many that you can use in different situations. You might find yourself incorporating CBT into your daily life through practice. “favorite” These CBT tools seem to be the most helpful for You will achieve the highest efficacy in the shortest time.
CBT Action
In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Daily Life, you’ll have the opportunity to be the proverbial fly on the wall of the therapist’s office. You will see Dr. Satterfield discussing his thoughts about the clients—explaining what he learns from what they do say and do not say, their body language, their willingness to take on and accomplish homework assignments, and more. He also explains the specific CBT tools he uses. for Each client and why they are there:
Amanda, a 27-Year-After not finding a job, an old single college graduate moved back in with her parents. Four years later, she’s still there, angry and afraid that she won’t have the life she dreamed of. for.
Christian, a 35-Year-An old man has struggled with insomnia for many years. for Seven years of tossing, turning, and twirling for It took hours for me to get tired enough to go to bed.
David, a 773-Year-An elderly grandfather and father who had colon cancer. He was a married man. David knows that the cancer is incurable and that he will soon be gone.
Miriam, a 63-year-old-Year-An old widow, mother, who works in school administration. She worries about her finances as well as her health. She lost her mother recently and is now depressed and tearful.
Scott, a 50-Year-Old man, who is physically dependent upon the high-He has taken high doses of opioids for In response to back pain, he has been suffering for years. He feels angry and frustrated by his doctors, who want him to stop taking the drugs.
Stephen, a 44-Year-Old single man who is neurotic and sensitive. He is quiet and detached to cope with anxiety, but feels overlooked and left out. He can often turn his hurt feelings into anger, and withdraws away from others.
Since several of these clients are shown in multiple sessions over time, you’ll see first-You can see how CBT has helped them in their daily lives. And as you follow these clients, you’ll be developing the CBT tools you can use to help yourself and maybe those you love. These skills and tools will help you not only address your problems but also teach you how to create and enjoy positive experiences that bring you more happiness, satisfaction, joy, and meaning in your life.

Here’s What You Will Get In Jason M. Satterfield – Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Daily Life