Show Notes
Learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps you step back from emotional reasoning and regulate your responses more effectively.
Do strong emotional responses often hijack your ‘rational reasoning’, and cause you to respond to stressors in a dramatic unhelpful way? When you look back do you wish you had responded in a different way that was proportional to the event, and that got you a better outcome?
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This CBT explainer episode unpacks core ideas from Veronica Walsh’s top-ranking workbook on the bad habit of ‘emotional reasoning’.
While emotions are valid and important signals, when stress is in the driving seat they can be way out of proportion to the actual event. Stress chemistry and unhelpful thinking patterns can distort perception and drive messy behaviour. Undistort it with CBT!
This episode explores how CBT helps you:
Recognise emotional reasoning as a thinking habit Separate feelings from facts without suppressing emotion Ground the nervous system during emotional surges Step back from automatic conclusions Respond more proportionately under pressure
The focus is emotional regulation, rational thinking, and better outcomes in everyday situations where emotions run high. Dive in!
(More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com. Episodes are adapted from original top-ranking CBT resources.
Practice site: CBTandFeelingGood.com
Further reading - a CBT Visual - The Science of Feelings - download a PDF: https://iveronicawalsh.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/col_deck_the_science_of_feelings.pdf
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