February 19, 2025

Therapeutic TIPS For Healthier Thinking; Judith Belmont

27 minutes

Judith Belmont can help you by providing therapeutic tips for healthier thinking. As the author of 11 mental health books and two therapeutic card decks, she equips counseling professionals, therapy clients, and self-help readers with practical tools for emotional well-being. Her work addresses common challenges such as low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and relationship issues. Her latest book, 110 TIPS and Tools for the CBT Toolbox, was released in January 2025 as part of her TIPS series with PESI, which includes 150 More Group Therapy Activities and TIPS and 86 TIPS for the Therapeutic Toolbox. Through worksheets, handouts, activities, and visualizations, she helps individuals improve communication, resilience, and mindfulness. Her approach is rooted in CBT, DBT, ACT, and Positive Psychology, making mental health strategies accessible and effective.

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Contact Info

Website: www.BelmontWellness.com

Book: 110 CBT TIPS and Tools by Judith Belmont

Most Influential Person

My Husband

Effect on Emotions

Mindfulness is extremely important to help me not look back or too far ahead. It has really been life-changing just to have gratitude in the moment.

People who are not grateful tend to count their disappointments more than their blessings. They are generally not happy people.

Thoughts on Breathing

I find that when people get anxious about something, they have more shallow breathing. Sometimes I have to remind myself to take a deep breath.

What I have done with my clients and with myself sometimes is just to imagine as you breathe in, that an energy and life force goes through your whole body. I imagine it being a color. The color goes through the extremities.

Then you breathe out and the color goes out to the air. That visual exercise helps me with my breathing.

Bullying Story

I was doing a webinar on communication skills in the workplace. I told the people in the webinar that assertive communication is using "I" statements. For example, I think, I feel, it's important to me.

Aggressive communication is "you" statements. For example, you shouldn't be doing that and blaming. Also being not assertive is keeping things in. Then I did a role-play. I then did a survey of the listeners and everybody got it wrong.

They did not realize that all the "you" statements were bullying behavior. Almost everybody identified it as assertive.

Suggested Resources

Book: The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns

Book: 110 CBT TIPS and Tools by Judith Belmont

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