Building awareness around your cognitive distortions involves becoming aware of your thoughts, which may lead you to notice thinking patterns and styles that you use consistently.

Our thinking can become distorted or flawed - these thinking errors are called cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions can impact how we feel and are associated with various emotions, including anxiety, anger, sadness, guilt, and frustration, to name a few.

We experience anxiety in three main ways: physically, mentally and behaviourally.

Whilst there is a great deal of emphasis on healthy emotional development in children, research is also helping us understand how our emotional skills and mental processes can impact the parent-child relationship.

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