TAM+ EP6 Unstuck Your Thoughts: 7 Cognitive Distortions Sabotaging Your Recovery
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode of Addicted Mind Plus is a game-changer for anyone feeling stuck in their journey toward sobriety. Hosts Duane and Eric Osterlind dive deep into the world of cognitive distortions - those tricky thought patterns that keep us from achieving our fullest potential and lock us in cycles of addiction. They shine a light on the top seven distortions, from all-or-nothing thinking to personalization and blame, and offer practical tips for challenging and changing these thoughts. Whether you're battling addiction, supporting someone who is, or just looking to understand your mind a little better, this episode is packed with insights and tools to help you reset your thinking and embrace a more positive, empowered life. Remember, changing how you think can truly change your life.
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Key Topics:
- The impact of cognitive distortions on addiction
- Overcoming all-or-nothing thinking
- The power of challenging negative thoughts
- Recognizing and reframing mental filters
- The importance of acknowledging positive steps in recovery
Key Moments Timestamps:
- [00:01:00] Introduction to cognitive distortions
- [00:03:48] Discussing "all or nothing" thinking
- [00:05:58] Exploring mental filters and their impact
- [00:07:40] Addressing the habit of discounting the positive
- [00:09:23] How jumping to conclusions affects us
- [00:11:24] The problem with labeling ourselves
- [00:13:48] The importance of challenging cognitive distortions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Addicted Mind Plus, the podcast where recovery, mental health, and wellness take the front seat. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Dwayne Austerland, and joining me is my co-host, Eric Osterland, known for his insightful work on the Stuck Brain podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | In each episode, we'll dive into actionable, small steps to help those in recovery journey further along the path to wellness. |
| 0:22.3 | Our conversations are designed to be concise, typically around 15 minutes, though we may |
| 0:27.0 | occasionally delve deeper when the topic demands it. Our goal to provide you with practical |
| 0:32.0 | advice grounded in real experiences and expert insights to empower your recovery journey. |
| 0:38.7 | So whether you're on a break, on a walk, or just taking a moment for yourself, |
| 0:42.3 | join us as we explore the many facets of recovery and mental health, one small step at a time. |
| 0:48.4 | This is The Addicted Mind Plus, where your journey to wellness gets an extra boost. |
| 0:53.2 | So let's get started. |
| 0:55.2 | All right, everyone, welcome to the gets an extra boost. So let's get started. All right, everyone, |
| 1:01.0 | welcome to the Addicted Mind Plus. I'm Dwayne Ostelin, and I'm here with my brother Eric. |
| 1:06.7 | Hello, everybody. Very nice to be here today. And we've got a great episode today. Today, we're going to talk about the top seven cognitive distortions that feed our dysfunctional beliefs |
| 1:12.3 | and keep us from achieving the life we want and stuck in our addiction cycle. Now, if you're |
| 1:18.3 | listening right now, ask yourself, how many times in the last week have you felt like giving up |
| 1:24.0 | on yourself? You felt like you're not good enough. You said, you know, there must be |
| 1:28.3 | something wrong with me. How many times in the last week have you said, you know what, I feel like a |
| 1:32.4 | failure. So I must be one. I'm really just a hopeless addict. There's no point in trying anymore. |
| 1:40.5 | I'm damaged. Everyone will always see me as an addict. And I've made so many failures in my life that any progress I make now is just insignificant. If you've said any of those things to yourself, I'm glad you're here today. I'm glad you're on this episode. Even if you're doing well and you feel like you're achieving your sobriety, this episode is for you because there's ways we can improve our cognitive distortions and our beliefs and even achieve more. |
| 2:08.1 | Absolutely. You can reach your potential if you understand these cognitive distortions and challenge them. |
| 2:14.1 | Yeah. And if you continue to engage in these cognitive distortions, then you are going to continue to be mired down in negativity. Yeah. And if you continue to engage in these cognitive distortions, then you are going to |
| 2:19.2 | continue to be mired down in negativity and continue to struggle in your addiction and your anxiety and |
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