Becoming more aware of imbalanced thoughts, automatic negative thoughts (ANTS), stinkin’ thinkin’ helps improve emotional and behavioural balance. Also, known as cognitive distortions, our brains will often overlay inaccurate thoughts onto emotions and/or events which can contribute to excessive feelings like sadness, anger, shame, grief, etc. This often fuels troubling behavioural patterns. This video highlights some of the more common cognitive or thinking traps we often fall into.

CBT helps us foster the change we desire in our lives and extinguish counter productive behaviours, thoughts and/or feelings related to that change.
Change your mind, change your life!

Books Referenced:
- Mind Over Mood:
https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Over-Mood-Second-Changing/dp/1462520421
- Duck! Rabbit!:
https://www.amazon.ca/Duck-Rabbit-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/0811868656

GUIDED BOX BREATHING EXERCISE:
https://youtu.be/TqKN_H9Zbp0

For more on CBT see our blog post linked here:
https://jeffpacker.com/same-problem-over-and-over/

For more blog posts and resources for support with family & relationship challenges, see our website here:
https://jeffpacker.com/blogs-vlogs/

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We offer *free counselling and support services on Thursday's through our new Food 4 Thought Program, more info here:
https://www.facebook.com/Food4ThoughtCounsellingProgram

We hope this serves as a resource to better your life and improve your mental fitness.

Take care out there :)