©2025 – Amy Morin, LCSW. All Rights Reserved
©2025 – Amy Morin, LCSW. All Rights Reserved
You have about 60,000 thoughts every day. But many of those thoughts aren’t helpful. Whether you put yourself down, rehash a conversation that happened in the past, or worry about something that could happen in the future, your thoughts affect how you feel and behave.
While you can’t control all the thoughts that pop into your head, you can control how you respond to them. In this episode, I share five ways to deal with negative thoughts. These strategies can improve your mental health and help you build mental strength.
Some of the things I share are:
“You have about 60,000 thoughts every single day. Many of those thoughts are repetitive and a lot of them aren’t even true.”
“We can’t control automatic thoughts, but we can control how we respond to them.”
“When you focus on the present, you stop your brain from taking you down all sorts of unhelpful thinking paths.”
“With practice, you can train your brain to think differently.”
0:01 Strategies to Respond to Unhelpful Automatic Thoughts
8:13 How Assumptions About Feedback Impact Workplace Behavior
9:42 Strategies to Combat Unhelpful Automatic Thoughts
11:05 Challenging Automatic Thoughts and Recognizing Opinions as Non-Facts
12:44 Five Strategies to Manage Negative Thoughts and Improve Mental Health
16:48 Grounding Techniques to Focus on the Present Moment
17:49 Responding to Negative Automatic Thoughts for Mental Strength
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