Have you ever found yourself moving quickly from feeling calm and capable to suddenly feeling small and worried? Or maybe you’ve gone from feeling playful and relaxed to blowing up with anger. This happens when your mode changes due to a triggering situation. In this blog, I’m sharing one of the ideas I use most …
Which Mode is Driving the Bus? Schema Therapy Modes Read More »
If you struggle with social connection due to a disconnection or an inability to express your true feelings or thoughts, including pleasant emotions, you may have the emotional constriction schema. You may: Have a sense of pride in being stoic or call yourself a “rational person” Strongly believe that “Showing emotions means I am weak/vulnerable”, …
If you believe that your feelings are dangerous and can cause damage or result in serious consequences, you may have the fear of losing control schema. Yalcin et all (2022) defines this schema as “The excessive inhibition or disconnection of spontaneous emotion, action, or expression, due to a fear that one would otherwise lose control …
The Fear of Losing Control Schema: my feelings will cause damage Read More »
Most people are aware of thoughts that cross their mind. These thoughts guide them, prompt them and even narrate their actions. You might notice some of these thoughts are critical of you, and the things you do and think. When this occurs, an inner critic mode is present. In schema therapy, this voice is called …
Critic Modes: Is your inner critic punitive, demanding or guilt inducing? Read More »
Strengthening your Healthy Adult mode means that you learn how to meet your core emotional needs in a healthy and balanced way.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is often cited as the gold standard treatment for many psychological difficulties, mostly because of the number of research studies demonstrating its effectiveness. It is a “here and now approach” that focuses on how to improve your mental health now and prides itself in not focusing on the past. It tends …
Do you feel like you don’t fit in, that other people don’t warm to you? Do you tend to assume that you are weird and so different that you won’t be welcomed into a group? Or that you don’t belong anywhere? The social isolation/ alienation schema is very common and develops out of a number of circumstances. …
I’m weird and I don’t belong: the social isolation/ alienation schema Read More »
Do you worry that you are bad or unworthy? Or that others won’t enjoy spending time with you? Do you often find yourself prickling with shame? Do you notice thoughts like “I am worthless” or “I’m stupid” or “ there’s something really wrong with me”? The defectiveness/ shame schema is a very common pattern. This …
When you believe you’re unworthy: the defectiveness/ shame schema Read More »
At the Schema Therapy Collective, we are passionate about Schema Therapy and it’s capacity to help people create the lives they want. Schema therapy focuses on changing long-standing patterns to improve your life rather than focusing on short term fixes to mental health symptoms. So what is Schema Therapy? Schema therapy is an evidence-based, integrative …
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