🧠Your thoughts are not facts - with Clinical Psychologist Dr Rebekah Tennyson
Here’s how to remind yourself of that.
When a worry feels strong enough, it can be almost impossible to tell yourself it might not be true. Especially when you’re looking for validation and not finding it.
Dr. Rebekah Tennyson introduces a simple but powerful reframe. Instead of treating thoughts as absolute truths, consider them as advice. Your brain is remarkable at processing information, but it doesn’t do so perfectly. Recognising that opens up space to get curious rather than consumed.
The defusion technique she shares takes it a step further.
Instead of thinking “”no one likes me,”” you shift to “”I’m having the thought that no one likes me.”” Then further still to “”I’m noticing that I’m having the thought that no one likes me.””
That distance is everything.
The goal isn’t to prove the thought wrong. It’s simply to observe it, understand why it might be appearing, and give yourself time to decide how to respond.
Have you ever caught yourself treating a thought as fact, only to realise later it wasn’t?
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