Increase selfawareness through journaling from "summary" of Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in 7 Weeks by Seth J. Gillihan
Journaling is a powerful tool that can help you gain insight into your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By recording your experiences and reflections on paper, you can increase your self-awareness and develop a deeper understanding of yourself. Writing about your feelings and experiences can help you identify patterns and triggers that may be contributing to your negative thoughts and emotions. It can also help you recognize the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and how they impact each other. Through journaling, you can start to see the ways in which your thoughts and beliefs may be influencing your mood and behavior. Journaling allows you to step back and observe your thoughts and emotions from a more objective perspective. It can help you identify cognitive distortions or negative thinking patterns that may be holding you back. By writing down your thoughts, you can begin to ch...
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