A Practical Guide to CBT Quotes

“But if we think that we can’t cope, or that the problem is totally unmanageable, we’re more likely to use less successful strategies. These avoidance-related strategies include staying away from others, cutting down on the things we normally do, using drugs or alcohol to escape or pretending that the problem doesn’t exist, while vainly hoping it will simply disappear. Predictably, these strategies have been shown to be less successful.”
― Elaine Iljon Foreman, A Practical Guide to CBT: From Stress to Strength

“Men are disturbed not by things but by the views which they take of them … when, therefore, we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never blame anyone but ourselves: that is, our own judgments.”
― Elaine Iljon Foreman, A Practical Guide to CBT: From Stress to Strength

“words of Leo Burke: People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
― Elaine Iljon Foreman, A Practical Guide to CBT: From Stress to Strength