Description

In this episode of the Fiat Health Podcast, Scott and Lucy share the foundational skills they hope every client learns during counseling. They discuss how learning to notice thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and relationship patterns is the first step in real change and helps bring about a greater sense of freedom. They also explore practical ways you can respond to what you notice and why changing your actions first leads to a change in your thought patterns. Whether you are currently in counseling, considering therapy, or simply hoping to better understand yourself and your relationships, this episode offers practical insights and hopeful encouragement.

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Key Takeaways:

1. Learning to Notice Without Judgement - Scott and Lucy explain how one of the first goals in therapy is helping clients notice their thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations with greater awareness. Healing often begins not by immediately fixing ourselves, but by becoming curious and compassionate towards what is happening internally.
2. Challenging How You Perceive Reality - Scott and Lucy explore how deeply rooted beliefs about ourselves and the world around us shape the way we interpret situations and relationships. Healing often requires intentionally acting against our initial impulses in order to build healthier ways of responding to stress and pain.
3. Boundaries and Communication in Relationships - Relational dynamics such as pursuing then withdrawing, criticism, and defensiveness can trap people in painful relationship cycles. Scott and Lucy explain how to create healthy boundaries, communicate clearly, and become self aware to become more connected in relationships.

Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction 

04:19 Core Beliefs and Wounds

08:28 Learning to Notice

14:51 Cognitive Distortions

20:11 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

26:44 Relationship Skills and Boundaries

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