50+ Best Therapeutic Journal Writing Prompts for Mental Health
The biggest difference in therapeutic journaling from just keeping a personal journal is therapeutic journaling focuses more on thoughts, feelings, and insights. The way we talk to ourselves influences our levels of happiness and success. But, unfortunately, it also influences our levels of unhappiness and lack of success.
Overcoming Disqualifying the Positive (A Cognitive Distortion)
You unreasonably tell yourself that positive things that you experience for some reason do not count and are dismissed. Perhaps they are dismissed because you tell yourself it was due to luck, the stars were aligned that day, or it was too easy and so should not count.
10 Fun and Simple Mindfulness Exercises – For a Happier You
10 fun and simple mindfulness exercises that you can incorporate into your life even when you don’t have a lot of time.
Overcoming the Mental Filter (A Cognitive Distortion)
This looks like the cup-half-full scenarios that we so often face. You only see the negatives in a person or situation. Mental filtering fixates on these particulars while denying or unable to acknowledge contradictory evidence.
Success Vs. Failure – Is there really a difference?
Most people who are successful reframe failure as a learning opportunity. And a way to discover what did not work as they move closer to discovering what will work in perhaps a different way.
Overcoming Overgeneralization (A Cognitive Distortion)
Making a broad conclusion based on a single negative event as “proof” of never-ending negativity or failure. For instance, believing after something bad happens once that it’ll just keep happening again and again. As a direct result, this pattern in your mind then becomes “proof” of never-ending defeat or failure.
