Rewire Your Mind

Your Thoughts Shape Your Reality

Your thoughts feel like facts, but they're often just habitual patterns. These cognitive tools help you catch limiting thoughts, challenge them, and reframe them. Same brain. Different story. Everything transforms.

Thought Record Worksheet

The core CBT tool. Catch the thought, challenge it, reframe it. Do this enough and your brain starts doing it automatically.

Thought Record Worksheet

Catch automatic thoughts, challenge them, and reframe. This is the core of CBT.

Know Your Enemy

Cognitive Distortions

Your brain lies to you. Here are the 10 most common lies it tells. Flip each card to recognize them and they lose their power.

All-or-Nothing Thinking

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"If I'm not perfect, I'm a total failure."

Overgeneralization

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"This always happens to me. Nothing ever works out."

Mental Filter

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Focusing on one negative comment while ignoring 10 compliments.

Disqualifying the Positive

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"They only said that to be nice. It doesn't count."

Jumping to Conclusions

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Mind reading: "They think I'm stupid." Fortune telling: "This will go badly."

Magnification/Minimization

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"My mistake was huge. My achievements? No big deal."

Emotional Reasoning

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"I feel like a failure, so I must be one."

Should Statements

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"I should never mess up. I must be productive 24/7."

Labeling

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"I'm a loser" instead of "I made a mistake."

Personalization

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"My friend is in a bad mood. It must be something I did."

Action First

Behavioral Activation

When you're stuck in a low mood or overwhelmed, you wait until you feel like acting. Behavioral activation reverses this: act first, and your mood and energy will follow. Here's your menu of activities.

Mastery Activities

Things that give you a sense of accomplishment

✓ Complete a task
✓ Learn something new
✓ Fix something broken
✓ Organize a space

Pleasure Activities

Things that bring you joy or relaxation

✓ Listen to music
✓ Take a walk
✓ Cook a meal
✓ Watch a favorite show

Connection Activities

Things that connect you to others

✓ Call a friend
✓ Join a group
✓ Volunteer
✓ Share a meal

⏱️ The 5-Minute Rule

Pick one activity from above. Commit to doing it for just 5 minutes. If you want to stop after 5, you can. But 90% of the time, you won't. Action creates momentum. Momentum creates motivation.

Next Level

The Art of Thought Challenging

Catching the thought is step one. Now we get smart about it. Here's an interactive tool to challenge a thought so thoroughly that it loses power.

Your Thought Challenge Worksheet

Thought

Distortion

Questions

Evidence

New

1Get Specific

Don't say "I'm a failure." Write the actual, specific thought that's bothering you right now. Get all the details down—every fear, every leap your mind is making.

✓ Why? Because when you get specific, you can challenge the actual thought instead of a vague feeling.

The Root

Core Beliefs That Drive Everything

Thoughts are like leaves on a tree. Core beliefs are the roots. If you want lasting change, work with the roots. Use this tool to identify and replace limiting beliefs.