Debbie Covino, PhDMay 152 minBad Thought: I can’t escape this anxiety.I sat with a client the other day who was feeling anxious. He’d had a bad day at work and traffic was unusually heavy on his way to see...
Debbie Covino, PhDApr 22 minBad Thought: I envy my sister.A recent client--I’ll call her Lupe--was struggling with negative feelings toward her sister, Elena. Lupe had recently suffered a bad...
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 262 minBad Thought: I can’t shake this depression.A couple of recent clients have been feeling depressed despite the facts that Covid is now waning and that neither has lost work. Having...
Debbie Covino, PhDJan 152 minBad Thought: I don’t know how to cope with Covid.As you might well imagine, people are struggling to deal emotionally as well as practically with yet another round of Covid. Omicron has...
Debbie Covino, PhDMay 23, 20211 minNext blog: Bad Thought: I can’t get over my anxiety because life is hard.Judson Brewer’s recently released book, Unwinding Anxiety, demonstrates that anxiety is not a necessary reaction to life but instead a...
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 27, 20212 minBad Thought: I am a mistake. My client “Lauren” was depressed ever since she’d had a mishap at work...“I feel like a total loser,” Lauren told me.
Debbie Covino, PhDNov 9, 20191 minBad Thought: I can’t control my negative thoughts....and as I often teach my clients, self-distancing is a useful strategy for finding relief from one’s own bad-feeling thoughts.
Debbie Covino, PhDAug 4, 20192 minBad Thought: My Good Moods are Easily DisruptedIn Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, Rick Hanson explains that enjoying better...
Debbie Covino, PhDOct 7, 20181 minBad Thought: I have no control over my bad moods.You can improve your mood by finding something good in a negative turn of events.
Debbie Covino, PhDOct 8, 20172 minBad Thought: Anxiety is taking over my life.Anxiety can be so overwhelming that it often seems one’s entire life is being consumed by it. One thinks, Anxiety is taking over my life.
Debbie Covino, PhDFeb 12, 20171 minBad Thought: My Life Sucks.Speaking of things in flux, our moods and feelings (like our bodies) are always shifting.