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    Bad Thought: The news makes me afraid.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Nov 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: The news makes me afraid.

    I've spoken before in this blog about the fear that news reports can provoke in us (July 7, 2017), and about the idea of cutting down on...
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    Bad Thought: I shouldn’t be struggling so much to change myself.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Nov 14, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I shouldn’t be struggling so much to change myself.

    I often find myself having to reassure clients that seeming “setbacks” in self-development are normal and even beneficial.
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    Bad Thought: I don’t know how to deal with bad thoughts.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jun 14, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I don’t know how to deal with bad thoughts.

    Many of us have seen the information circulating on the internet that we have 70,000+ thoughts per day and that most of them are negative...
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    Bad Thought: I feel selfish when I attend to my inner well-being.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • May 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    Bad Thought: I feel selfish when I attend to my inner well-being.

    As a hypnotherapist, I come across many people who put themselves last on the list when it comes to self-care.
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    Bad Thought: They cut back my hours at work.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jan 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: They cut back my hours at work.

    It can be difficult to find the good in a bad-seeming situation. However, in many if not most cases, the unwanted situation has a positive..
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    Bad Thought: I can’t control my negative thoughts.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Nov 9, 2019
    • 1 min

    Bad 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.
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    Bad Thought: My Good Moods are Easily Disrupted
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Aug 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: My Good Moods are Easily Disrupted

    In Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, Rick Hanson explains that enjoying better...
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    Bad Thought: People don’t change.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jun 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: People don’t change.

    In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), it’s said that change occurs only when people have hit bottom, can take responsibility for...
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    Bad Thought: I lack confidence.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Mar 10, 2018
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I lack confidence.

    Confidence issues are very common. Do you feel you lack confidence? Or is there some other trait you feel you don’t possess? 
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    Bad Thought: People don’t appreciate me.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jan 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: People don’t appreciate me.

    Have you ever desperately wanted to get a certain reaction from another person and been disappointed?
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    Bad Thought: I wish I hadn’t had that terrible fight with my sister-in-law.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Jan 6, 2018
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: I wish I hadn’t had that terrible fight with my sister-in-law.

    A client I’ll call Joanne had an unpleasant spat with her sister-in-law, Irene, on Christmas Eve.
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    Bad Thought: My brain can't change.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Mar 29, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: My brain can't change.

    Anxiety is a pattern that has created a kind of pathway in the brain, and a person can learn to abandon this pathway and walk down...
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    Bad Thought: This isn’t as I imagined it would be.
    Debbie Covino, PhD
    • Feb 19, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bad Thought: This isn’t as I imagined it would be.

    Imagine my surprise when the new context proved challenging. Very challenging. I often thought, This isn't as I imagined it would be.
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