Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ksenia Chernaya/Pexels Ever find yourself focusing on the bad in every situation? That’s a cognitive distortion called mental ...

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When I am working with people, they tell me the most important thing they would like help with is releasing negative thoughts. I wish it could be so easy to let them go, but for many of us, negative ...

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