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Your focus is like a torch
Here’s a useful frame I didn’t believe in: your focus is like a torch. Choosing to believe you can control the torch requires mental fortitude. It requires breaking the habit of being yourself. When you figure it out, the path becomes much less confusing because you direct where the light goes, rather than having it…
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Reading Psych Books Opened My Mind to Shallow Therapies
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) always felt ‘icky’ to me Of course I didn’t challenge its efficacy. The evidence is overwhelming. Yet something didn’t sit right. Was it too shallow? Was it too wide spread? Were there too many simplistic, reductionist options? Looking around, it seemed so shallow and troubling I eventually came to feel the…
