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You learn to change the thoughts that are not wholly accurate and true by challenging what you tell yourself and believe.  Here, I share the strategy (and best practice) for how to challenge and change your thoughts; and to change how you feel.  

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜


How to Challenge and Change Your Thoughts 😎

Feelings are the conscious experience of your emotional reaction.

Your feelings arise out of what you think.  Your feelings are incredibly powerful and it can seem at times, as though they overtake or control you.  

Here we discuss the relationship between your thoughts and feelings; and I share helpful cues for how to best understand why you feel the way you do; and how to change how you feel.

Join me here again for another episode of CBT 'Best Practices' to learn how your feelings affect your actions and reactions. 

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜


How Do You Want to Feel? 🌟

Here we break down each of the Five Core Principles of CBT; how they work in synergism; and how you apply them to your life. 

We also discuss what makes CBT successful as a preeminent form of psychotherapy; in part because it begins with the teaching of awareness as the first step to positive change.

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜


How to Apply the 5 Core Principles of CBT to Your Life

The stories that you tell reflect how you think.  What you tell yourself, you believe.  

What are the stories you tell?  What are the stories of your life that you need to rewrite; to choose a different narrative?  How can your "stories" better reflect accurate perceptions as you become an 'observer'; and as you ask the questions that will help you understand and know what is true? 

"The stories we tell reflect the way in which we think; and how we make sense of what happens.  The challenge is to tell the stories that convey what is true; and to keep our mind and heart open to each experience and what it has the potential of teaching us."  - dorothy ratusny

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜



How the Stories You Tell 😉 Become the Inspiration for Your Life

This exercise can be done written or cognitively and helps walk us through the ABCDE model to help us find a way of thinking about an activating event that is helpful and balanced.

ABCDE Model Exercise

Lounging and avoiding feels so good! That is until it starts impairing you from engaging in other dating and relationship activities that use to bring you pleasure. Let's explore what's missing and set you up for more pleasure in your life.

It Takes Action

Core beliefs are the well ingrained messages that we in turn accept and believe to be true; even when they are not accurate.  In this episode of CBT 'Best Practices' we dive into the ways in which your core beliefs are developed and how they impact your thoughts and decisions for the rest of your life; unless - you learn how to challenge and change a core belief to represent what is healthy and true. 

This episode is so very important to understand what has held you back; and how you may overcome a limiting belief with what you decide and know to be true. 

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including important strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life! 

Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! Well done!! 

Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! Namaste!

The 5 Best Strategies for Building Healthy (New) Core Beliefs

Dating and relationships are very much an internal process as it is external. Learn and explore how our cognition impacts our dating and relationship behaviors.

Dating & Relationship Thoughts

The ABCDE model in CBT is a way to understand the role our thoughts play in our feelings and behaviors, and how to find balanced and helpful thoughts.

ABCDE Model Introduction

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a great framework for understanding the role our thoughts and beliefs have on how we feel, how we behave and how we interact with life around us.  This track is an introduction to this framework with examples.

General Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

The stories that you tell reflect how you think.  What you tell yourself, you believe.  

What are the stories you tell?  What are the stories of your life that you need to rewrite; to choose a different narrative?  How can your "stories" better reflect accurate perceptions as you become an 'observer'; and as you ask the questions that will help you understand and know what is true? 

"The stories we tell reflect the way in which we think; and how we make sense of what happens.  The challenge is to tell the stories that convey what is true; and to keep our mind and heart open to each experience and what it has the potential of teaching us."  - dorothy ratusny

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜




How the Stories You Tell 😉 Become the Inspiration for Your Life.

Your thoughts are the precise mechanism by which you decide your life.  "Thoughts" are the succession of words and sentences spoken inside your mind (and at times, aloud).  

In this episode of CBT 'Best Practices' we begin with one of the fundamental principles - the importance of your thoughts.  Learn a helpful tool to bring greater awareness to how and what you think - in all moments.  When you practice observing your thoughts, you understand why you feel the way you do.  

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 💜👍 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 💜


Your Thoughts Determine Your Happiness 😁

Discover more about the cycle of anxiety and what you can do about it. 

How the Cycle of Anxiety Works

We're going cognitively deep here. Moving through our surface-level thoughts to our core beliefs.

How Our Core Beliefs Impact Our Love Life

This is an introduction to the CBT concept of Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATs).  Starting to understand and identify NATs is key to self awareness, and the starting point for making meaningful changes in our lives. As these NATs are occurring regularly and are so familiar to us, we often don't notice them for what they are.

Negative Automatic Thoughts (NATS) Introduction

Discover what cognitive behavioural therapy is and how we can approach it through a lens of compassion for ourselves. 

Introduction to Compassion Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

This guided meditation exercise invites the listener to notice the different effect different thoughts can have on our body.  By focusing on different thoughts, and noticing how the body responds to these thoughts, we can become aware of how our thinking affects how we feel.

Notice the Effect of Thoughts

Your Behaviors are defined as your 'actions' and 'reactions'.  Your behaviors are the result of how you feel and what you think.  In this episode of CBT 'Best Practices', I help you illuminate your thoughts (as the starting point for understanding your behaviors) together with the best practices for how to change your behavior; to be in control of what you say and do, because of the power that you hold to change your perceptions and thinking.

This episode ties it all together: your thoughts, feelings and behaviors as the three eminent elements of CBT. Let's dive into this together!  

p.s. There is a lot to take in, in each of these episodes of CBT 'Best Practices', including takeaway strategies and tools that you can immediately apply in your life!  Listen with a way to take notes so that you can turn each episode into the change that you seek in your life! 
Well done!!
Please join me for more CBT 'Best Practices' here! 
Namaste! 


Change Your Behavior

The best person to start building a healthier relationship with is yourself. Take a listen to this track to engage in some self-exploration and build confidence in your relationship decisions.

Get to Know Yourself Better

Learn how to give yourself the quality time and attention you deserve. 

It’s Time to Date Yourself

Reflect on your 2020 thoughts so you can head into 2021 with a healthier perspective.

Think About Your Thinking: a 2020 Reflection

We're going cognitively deep here. Moving through our surface level thoughts to our core beliefs.

Dating and relationships are very much an internal process as well as external. Learn and explore how your cognition impacts your dating and relationship behaviors.

Here we dive into the best therapeutic practices and how to implement them into your life - now.

Included here are the original and innovative teachings of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy together with skill-based techniques, practical tools and solutions, and real-life client examples to effect and support your positive change and transformation.

CBT as a treatment modality helps to alleviate and heal the following: depression, anxiety, panic, anger, grief, personality disorders, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, abuse, addictions, and loss; and may be successfully used with adolescents, adults, and couples.  

In addition to CBT tools and effective practices, you will also find valuable help and guidance for using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Positive Psychology.

Dorothy also integrates mindfulness, meditation, and spiritual teachings within the therapy process, to support your growth and healing into wholeness.

Dorothy Ratusny is a Registered Psychotherapist who specializes in the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) as one of several innovative modalities for ‘whole’ being wellness.

Learn how to create a healthier, loving, and more exciting long-lasting relationship.

Dating and intimate relationships are an impactful aspect of your life. Your relationship could be a loving, fun, and supportive contribution or a source of distress, heartache, and conflict. This Dating & Relationship channel, led by psychologist Dr. Alexis Moreno, provides an encouraging evidence-based, holistic, and solution-focused approach to bring more love to your love life.

All are welcome here in this channel. Whether you’re already in an intimate relationship or single, Dr. Alexis uses inclusive gender-neutral language to guide listeners of all sexual orientations through the process of finding and/or enhancing their love life. Listen in and invest your time and energy into meaningful self-reflection and essential skill-building. Every track includes journaling prompts, dating and relationship education, and action steps to help you learn more about yourself, how to effectively express your needs, and how to create the loving relationship everyone deserves.

To dive in deeper into your love life, book a complimentary Dating & Relationship Coaching consultation with Dr. Alexis online at witandreason.com/coaching. You are also welcome to subscribe and follow @witandreason on any social media platform to get weekly tips from Dr. Alexis and her mental health team of therapists, coaches, activists, and educators. Dr. Alexis also reads and responds to all of your comments left here in Aura. Please feel free to share your thoughts, experiences, and make requests!

Learn practical tools to address thoughts, emotions, the nervous system and live a life you love.

This channel is intended to help listener learn how to navigate their inner world, to help create an outer world that they love.  Using different therapeutic modalities, drawing on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and the teachings of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness, we will explore how to work effectively with thoughts and emotions, how to resolve issues in the nervous system, create a life you love, and find a sense of internal peace and fulfillment.

Core Beliefs: How We Perceive Our World

Use CBT to create a healthier, loving, and more exciting long-lasting relationship.

Your mind is involved in everything you do, including how you interact in dating and intimate relationships. This CBT Dating & Relationship channel, led by psychologist Dr. Alexis Moreno, provides a practical and inspirational CBT approach to your love life.

All are welcome here in this channel. Whether you’re already in an intimate relationship or single, Dr. Alexis uses inclusive gender-neutral language to guide all listeners through the process of creating and/or enhancing their love life. Listen in and invest your time and energy into meaningful self-reflection, education, and essential skill-building. Every track includes CBT psychoeducation, journaling prompts, and action steps to help you learn more about yourself and how to create the loving relationship everyone deserves.

To dive deeper into your love life, book a complimentary Dating & Relationship Coaching consultation with Dr. Alexis online at witandreason.com/coaching. You are also welcome to subscribe and follow @witandreason on any social media platform to get weekly tips from Dr. Alexis and her mental health team of therapists, coaches, activists, and educators. Dr. Alexis also reads and responds to all of your comments left here in Aura. Please feel free to share your thoughts, experiences, and make requests!

Bringing the science of happiness to your life

As clinical psychologists, we’re dedicated to bringing the science of happiness to your everyday life. We, just like you, know how difficult it is to find time to care for ourselves. So, we've translated the best information and tools available to help you navigate the ups and downs of life.

In this channel, we share a combination of evidence-based therapeutic approaches including Self-compassion, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Positive Psychology.

If you're feeling stressed, anxious, low or you’ve just had a bad day, you're in just the right place. Join us for simple, daily exercises to help you tap into your natural capacity for joy, compassion, and positivity.

We look forward to sharing this journey with you.