Debug your internal operating system. Identify distortions, rewire beliefs, and reclaim your emotional autonomy.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is based on a simple but world-changing insight: It is not the event itself that disturbs us, but the meaning we give to it. Your emotions are not reactions to reality; they are reactions to your interpretations of reality.
A neutral occurrence. Your boss is silent. A friend cancels. A code bug appears.
The automatic story your brain tells to explain the event. 'I'm failing.' 'She's mad.'
The neurochemical cascade triggered by the thought. Anxiety, shame, anger.
We aren't here for "positive thinking." Positive thinking is often just as delusional as negative thinking. We are here for Realistic Thinking. Our goal is to align our mental representations as closely as possible with objective evidence.
Strengthen the Prefrontal-Amygdala inhibitory pathway.