Cognitive Distortions

Cognitive distortions are ways that our mind convinces us of something that simply isn’t true. These irrational thoughts are usually used to reinforce negative thinking or emotions, such as telling ourselves things that sound rational and accurate, but really only serve to keep us feeling bad about ourselves. Generally, these distortions are at the subliminal level, but with awareness they are easily identified.

Is this podcast, I discuss the 10 most common cognitive distortions and relate them to our world of speech therapy private practice.

In this episode:

01:01 – Wow, it’s a new year

01:06 – Seahawks VS Cardinals, lessons learned

02:15 – Family time is very important – with corn hole

03:07 – Cognitive distortions

03:30 – Common misconceptions of speech therapy private practice

04:20 – Costco, Organic Mighty Green Juice and exercise

05:15 – Backward masking and the Reverse Speech App

06:05 – All-or-Nothing Thinking

06:26 – Overgeneralizing

07:00 – Mental Filter

07:15 – Discounting the positives

07:26 – Jumping to conclusions – A. Mind Reading or B: Fortune Telling

08:30 – Magnification or minimizing

08:42 – Emotional Reasoning

09:01 – “Should” Statements

09:03 – Labeling

09:12 – Personalization or blame

09:17 – Business can be stressful – but don’t fall into the cognitive distortion trap

09:51 – Ready for a mentor? I am taking 2 students – email me with “The Perfect Student” in Subject Line

Transcription of Episode Seven:

You’ve got to take care of your mind as a business owner, as clinic owner, you’ve got to take care of yourself, especially your mind. You are your most important asset to your business.

Well, hello everyone, you’re listening to this Speech therapy Private practice Startup Podcast, this is episode number 7. My name is Kyle Meades and am a speech pathologist since 1993 and this podcast is designed to help you improve your business and your life one podcast, at a time. Well everyone it’s 2016. This is the first episode of 2016. Today is Monday January 4th, I’m really thrilled to be on the podcast today to share with you some things that I’ve been thinking about already this year. We had a wonderful New Year’s Eve I took my family up to Phoenix for the weekend. We went up and shared some time with a very good friend of mine. He’s a clinic owner up in Phoenix. We also went to a NFL football game. I took my son to his first NFL football game. It was the Seahawks versus the Cardinals. Now we live in Arizona, but my son, he loves the Seahawks he loves the Seahawks. So he had his number three Seahawks jersey and I’ll tell you what, the Cardinals got shut down and my friend that I was with in Phoenix he told my son, he said you know you’re going to be crying by the half-time. Because the Seahawks are going to lose and every time the Seahawks scored or made some great play, he turned around and looked at my friend and he gives him that little grin you know that little, I can’t repeat it but that little grin just shuts everybody down. But anyway, the Seahawks won. It was very fun. We had a great family time; we stayed at the Hyatt out in Scottsdale, beautiful resort, beautiful place to stay, the team for West Virginia who played Arizona State. They were staying at the Hyatt. My son was playing corn hole. I think that’s a game that was invented in Cleveland, Ohio if I know my history right, Cornole. Leave a comment if you know where cornole that game where you throw the beanbag up in the air and to the other side,