CBT post: Stress Management - Cue Cards
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flamingswordOMG is it the last post of the Stress Management chapter? It IS!!
It's time to make cognitive cue cards! Okay,so you know how you always imagine yourself as being way more collected in the moments after something triggers you than you wind up actually being? I always think I will know what to say, but that never seems to happen. Instead of wishing we were better at witty repartee or at being a cool cucumber, maybe we should plan ahead. Imagining doing the thing we should do, and thinking the things we will need to think of in order to do them can be very helpful at retraining ourselves away from bad coping strategies, shame spirals, and freezing up and letting ourselves be taken advantage of.
Make a cue card for each one of your triggers and the coping skills that go with that trigger.
Just because _____ (trigger) doesn't mean _____ (negative belief).
When I am tempted to _____ (negative coping skill), instead I can:
1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
And that's it! We're done with the whole chapter! If you want to throw some input into which chapter I do here next, then go right ahead.
It's time to make cognitive cue cards! Okay,so you know how you always imagine yourself as being way more collected in the moments after something triggers you than you wind up actually being? I always think I will know what to say, but that never seems to happen. Instead of wishing we were better at witty repartee or at being a cool cucumber, maybe we should plan ahead. Imagining doing the thing we should do, and thinking the things we will need to think of in order to do them can be very helpful at retraining ourselves away from bad coping strategies, shame spirals, and freezing up and letting ourselves be taken advantage of.
Make a cue card for each one of your triggers and the coping skills that go with that trigger.
Just because _____ (trigger) doesn't mean _____ (negative belief).
When I am tempted to _____ (negative coping skill), instead I can:
1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
And that's it! We're done with the whole chapter! If you want to throw some input into which chapter I do here next, then go right ahead.