Your automatic thoughts are often revealing far more than you realize. In this episode, we’re talking about cognitive distortions and the limiting beliefs that often exist underneath them. Cognitive distortions are the automatic thought patterns many of us experience every day, such as catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, overgeneralizing, or mind reading. These patterns are often easier to recognize than the deeper unconscious beliefs driving them. I break down the difference between cognitive distortions and limiting beliefs, then walk through the downward arrow technique to show how repetitive thought patterns can point back to deeper beliefs about yourself, other people, and the world.