Who is Matthew McKay , PhD

"Matthew McKay, PhD, is a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. He has authored and coauthored numerous books, including The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook, Self-Esteem, Thoughts and Feelings, When Anger Hurts, and ACT on Life Not on Anger. He has also penned two fiction novels, Us and The Wawona Hotel. McKay received his PhD in clinical psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and specializes in the cognitive behavioral treatment of anxiety and depression. He lives and works in the greater San Francisco Bay Area."

@ New Harbinger

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1. @Amazon
2. @The Wright Institute

Religious people always blame the devil [video] from Emmanuel Matos

*lol*

This is a great way of looking at things

Download the Confidence Coach app

"Confidence Coach is designed to help you build your confidence and self-esteem. It is based on a psychological approach known as Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy (CBT). It will help you to appreciate your qualities and discover your hidden strengths. Confidence Coach is an intuitive and user-friendly app that guides the user through a range of established strategies to help them systematically build their self-esteem and confidence.


Confidence Coach has been developed by 2 British Clinical Psychologists with over 25 years therapeutic experience. Rather than purely using self-hypnosis or simplistic affirmations, Confidence Coach utilises a range of proven CBT and experiential techniques to help the user to systematically make desired changes.

Key Features 

Audio Guides
As well as comprehensive written information, there are 3 audio recordings which act as a more personal guide through the app. These recordings will direct you on how to get the most from the app, and offer “therapist tips” on how to overcome common obstacles that people often encounter when trying to build their self-esteem.

Centre For clinical interventions/ CFCI's numerous worksheets and workbooks for self help and love

"The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is a specialist state-wide program that is administered through North Metropolitan Health Services in Western Australia. We conduct clinically applied psychosocial research and provide training and supervision for various psychological interventions. We also offer a clinical service for adults suffering from anxiety, mood and eating disorders.

The clinical service provided by CCI is based on current evidence-supported practice and aims to best meet the needs of our clients. As CCI forms part of the public mental health system, the service we offer is free.

CCI is a specialist public mental health service that:

Treats adults suffering from complex anxiety, affective and eating disorders.
Conducts clinically applied research.
Provides training and supervision for mental health practitioners in psychotherapy.
CCI has also developed a number of resources for consumers, mental health practitioners, and doctors, many of which are freely available through this website. This website was created as part of a quality improvement project funded through the Office of Mental Health."
Check out Centre For clinical interventions and some free resources

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1. Workbooks

Overcoming Depersonalization Disorder: A Mindfulness and Acceptance Guide to Conquering Feelings of Numbness and Unreality by Fugen Neziroglu

"When you have depersonalization disorder, nothing seems real. You may feel detached from reality, even from your own thoughts, as though you are going through the motions of living without ever being truly connected to your experiences. Whether your depersonalization developed after a traumatic experience or is something you've always lived with, this book can help you reconnect with life again.

Overcoming Depersonalization Disorder can help you diagnose the type and degree of your depersonalization disorder, come to understand why it developed, and cope with your symptoms using practical skills drawn from acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT).

Ready to feel real again? Put the practical skills in this book to work in your life right now and start reintegrating yourself back into the world and reconnecting to your own vibrant thoughts and feelings."

More Info..

1. Buy
2. PDF:

OvercomingDepersonalizationDisorder

Check out Excel At Life/ CBT app

"Welcome to Excel At Life!
The purpose of this website is to provide to the public research-based psychological information in a usable format to assist with each individual's pursuit of understanding and personal growth.  Psychology has a wealth of untapped information that can be used for self-improvement. The belief of Excel At Life is that everyone should have access to these resources.

Please browse the articles, use the audios and videos, complete the questionnaires and diaries without needing to join or pay a fee.  Also, if you have an Android device, download Excel At Life's free apps for self-improvement and managing stress, anxiety, and depression."
Check out Excel At Life

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1. Excel At Life's apps

GetHelp's 7-step Self Help Course & guided self-help package

"Individual and Personal Assistance with the 7-step Self Help Course & guided self-help package."

Check out the 7 step course @ Get Help (dot) co(dot) uk

GetHelp (dot)co(dot)uk's Self Help Course

A pdf of GetHelp (dot)co(dot)uk's Self Help Course

They have a lot more, so check them out!

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Self Help Course

Check out Cyquest

"Who are you?

A small group of people who cry. There are 3 of us in the core group who have been focusing almost exclusively on emotional/soul healing since 1966. We also have many friends and visitors who have contributed valuable things to the site. We don't follow any one creed or group or philosophy or religion, although we have incorporated bits and pieces of many things into our peculiar personal paradigm. The Path of Tears is what we walk. The only thing we're completely devoted to is the healing of the soul. We don't believe it's possible to know the whole truth about anything until we ourselves are fully whole. The material on this website is all aimed at that one goal.


There's so much on this site, can you give it to me in a nutshell?

The two key words are wholeness and balance.

BALANCE: The world and the people in it are hugely out of balance. For a long time the world has believed that the soul, and the emotional realm the soul rules, are childish, untrustworthy, unevolved, and even evil. Something to leave behind or rise above. We have elevated spirit, mind, and scientific things to an extremely high level, and relegated the soul, emotions, intuition and all things feminine to a state of poverty, degredation and slavery. When emotions are not allowed to express as they need to, they become twisted, distorted, hideous and cruel. They act out in violent and self-defeating ways, therefore Mind/Spirit has felt justified in continuing its supression and judgments of the Soul/Emotions. We need to stop the judgments and the suppression. We need to understand how the soul works, accept that it is fundamentally different from the mind/spirit in its processes, and allow it to heal and evolve as IT needs to.

WHOLENESS: In order to survive in a world that doesn't accept emotions, most of us have tried to suppress our feelings. Our soul parts go into a state of denial, hidden in the attic of our sub/unconscious. Often these parts become inaccessible to us. Then, a) we no longer know what we feel, and b) we lose the gifts that the soul should bring to our lives. When a person experiences a large amount of pain, shock or trauma, they can even fragment, break apart, and lose parts of their own emotional body. These lost parts, whether in suppression in the attic or fragmented away, need to be healed in order to bring us back to a state of wholeness and balance.


I agree that my emotions at birth were probably the best barometer of the truth. But now I'm clouded by years of old pain. How can I trust my feelings now?

When emotions are not allowed to process naturally, they build up in the unconscious, layer upon layer. Each unhealed bit of pain freezes in the moment, and continues to live in that (past) moment until it is allowed to express and heal. The mind can choose to "move on". The emotions cannot. So we often find ourselves responding to the present from a part of ourselves that is still living in a painful past. The only way to bring these parts to the present so we can receive the gifts of their true knowing and intuition, is to allow them to heal from the past pains. Allowing the soul to move in the ways it needs to - emotional things must heal in emotional ways - will unfreeze all our parts, allow them to evolve and come into the present, and bring us to wholeness.

We firmly believe that the soul and the emotions are the greatest unused gift we have, and when healed, will always help us know the truth. "
Check out Cyquest

More Info..

1. Check out their Pathways section of the site

Check out GetSelfHelp (dot)co (dot) uk for awesome helpful worksheets,etc

"Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) has been proven to help mental health problems.  This website offers CBT self-help information, resources and including therapy worksheets on the FREE DOWNLOADS PAGES:  worksheets & handouts"

Has a TON of great self helping work sheets, tips, mp3s,etc

Check out getselfhelp.co.uk

What is the grounding technique?

"WHAT IS GROUNDING?

Grounding is a set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain (e.g., craving, anger, sadness). Distraction works by focusing outward on the external world, rather than inward toward the self. You can also think of it as “distraction,” “centering,” “a safe place,” “looking outward,” or “healthy detachment.”

WHY DO GROUNDING?

When you are overwhelmed with emotional pain, you need a way to detach so that you can gain control over your feelings and stay safe. Grounding “anchors” you to the present and to reality.

Many people with PTSD or those people who are struggling with feeling overwhelming emotions and memories or those feeling numb with dissociation, benefit from grounding. In grounding, you attain a balance between the two: conscious of reality and able to tolerate it. Remember that pain is a feeling; it is not who you are. When you get caught up in it, it feels like you are your pain, and that is all that exists. But it is only one part of your experience-the others are just hidden and can be found again through grounding.

Guidelines

• Grounding can be done any time, any place, anywhere, and no one has to know.
• Use grounding when you are faced with a trigger, enraged, dissociating, having a craving, or when ever your emotional pain goes above 6 (on a 0-10 scale). Grounding puts healthy distance between you and these negative feelings.
• Keep your eyes open, scan the room, and turn the light on to stay in touch with the present.
• Rate your mood before and after grounding, to test whether it worked. Before grounding, rate your level of emotional pain (0-10, where 10 means “extreme pain”). Then re-rate it afterwards. Has it gone down?
• No talking about negative feelings or journal writing-you want to distract away from negative feelings, not get in touch with them.
• Stay neutral-avoid judgments of “good” and “bad.” For example, instead of “The walls are blue; I dislike blue because it reminds me of depression,” simply say “The walls are blue” and move on.
• Focus on the present, not the past or future.
• Note the grounding is not the same as relaxation training. Grounding is much more active, focuses on distraction strategies, ans is intended to help extreme negative feelings. It is believed to be more effective than relaxation training for PTSD.
• WAYS OF GROUNDING

There are three major ways of grounding, mental, physical, and soothing. “Mental” means focusing your mind; “physical” means focusing on your senses (e.g., touch, hearing); and “soothing” means talking to yourself in a very kind way. You may find that one type works better for you, or all types may be helpful.

Mental Grounding

CBT for ADHD - Manage Adult ADHD with Leading Edge Group Therapy

Although not everyone has ADHD we all can use these tactics to help us in our daily life. How many times do we procrastinate each day? Self-sabotage is the largest contribute to procrastination and stress. This is a great idea to use CBT and DBT for ADHD or ADHD-like behaviors (that we all have)

Key Concepts To Dealing With Emotions by Dan Beaver

Dan Beaver, MFT's channel

Dan Beaver is a self-help provider that teaches emotion regulation techniques by including CBT to an audience. He specks about how we handle our emotions, and gives advice as to how to manage our frayed emotions in a better way.

Check out Dan Beaver's Youtube Channel

Cognitive Restructuring

"Cognitive restructuring is a core part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is one of the most effective psychological treatments for common problems like depression, anxiety disorders, and binge eating.

These are some CBT techniques you can try at home to reduce problems with your mood, anxiety, and stress.....

1. Practice noticing when you're having a cognitive distortion.
2.Track the accuracy of a thought.
3. Behaviorally testing your thought.
4. Evaluate the evidence for/against your thought.
5. Mindfulness Meditation
6. Self-Compassion "

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@Psychology Today

"How to use Cognitive Restructuring

Step 1: Calm Yourself

Step 2: Identify the Situation

Step 3: Analyze Your Mood

Step 4: Identify Automatic Thoughts

Step 5: Find Objective Supportive Evidence

Step 6: Find Objective Contradictory Evidence

Step 7: Identify Fair and Balanced Thoughts

Step 8: Monitor Your Present Mood"

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@MindTools

Peter Gerlach's youtube and self help website

*Click pic to go to youtube channel

"These video clips summarize what I've learned about 7 key topics as a veteran family system therapist. My experience is that average people can live a more satisfying life once they're aware of these topics. A core awareness is to learn Who is REALLY running your life - your true Self, or "someone else"?

See this channel's playlists for the main topics. Note that text annotations and links in these videos may only display in PCs and laptops, not5 mobile devices.

These videos are summaries. To opitimize your learning, study the free online lessons in my nonprofit Web site at sfhelp.org."


Check youtube channel out!

*Click pic to go to his self help site





"   This ad-free, educational Web site is for people who take their lives seriously - specially those caring for minor kids (or planning to). A quick test to determine if you are such a person - have you identified your life-purpose yet, or are you seriously seeking it? If "not yet," this self-improvement course may be of little use to you now. Either way, invest one minute in the inspirational video "The Dash" - it's about you and your life."

Check it out!