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Popular Articles

Crazy-Makers: Dealing with Passive-Aggressive People

Why Are People Mean? Don't Take It Personally!

When You Have Been Betrayed

Struggling to Forgive: An Inability to Grieve

Happy Habits: 50 Suggestions

The Secret of Happiness: Let It Find You (But Make the Effort)

Excellence vs. Perfection

Depression is Not Sadness

20 Steps to Better Self-Esteem

7 Rules and 8 Methods for Responding to Passive-aggressive People

What to Do When Your Jealousy Threatens to Destroy Your Marriage

Happiness is An Attitude

Guide to How to Set Achieveable Goals

Catastrophe? Or Inconvenience?

Popular Audios

Panic Assistance

Motivational Audios

Mindfulness Training

Rational Thinking

Relaxation for Children

Loving Kindness Meditation

Self-Esteem Exercise

Lies You Were Told

Choosing Happiness

Audio Version of Article: Crazy-Makers: Passive-Aggressive People

Audio Version of Article: Why Are People Mean? Don't Take It Personally!

Audio Version of Article: Happiness Is An Attitude

All Audio Articles

Anxiety Audio Articles

The following articles have audio versions:

50 Tools for Panic and Anxiety
Describes 50 evidence-based tools from cognitive-behavioral therapy for coping with anxiety disorders.

How to Manage Panic and Anxiety
Explains what panic is and is not, how it is maintained by the anxiety cycle, and some methods to learn how to control it.

Coping with Change: Psychological Flexibility
Discusses the concept of adapting to change and how CBT can improve psychological flexibility.

A Brief Primer on the Biology of Stress and How CBT Can Help
Explains the biology of the stress reaction and how cognitive-behavioral therapy impacts that process at the biological level.

How Do We Change Irrational Thinking?
Provides an overview of how cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) works.

Catastrophe? Or, Inconvenience?
Examines catastrophic thinking which is the tendency to assume the worst-case scenario is likely to occur.

Use Your Head! And Your Heart!
Describes emotional reasoning which is the tendency to believe emotions are accurate without evaluating them.

Excellence vs. Perfection
Compares perfectionistic thinking with striving for excellence.

But It Happened Before!
Generalizing is the irrational belief that because something occurred one time it is more likely to occur again.

When the Need for Control Gets Out of Control
Examines the Internal Control Fallacy of needing to be in control and responsible for everything and the External Control Fallacy which is believing everything that happens is due to luck or uncontrollable circumstances.

Understanding and Using the Cognitive Diary
Describes how to change irrational thinking styles by using the cognitive diary technique.

Why are Meditative Relaxation and Mindfulness Important?
Discusses the relaxation and different methods. Good introduction before using relaxation and mindfulness audios.