Do instant negative emotional responses hijack your reality? When emotions take over, CBT helps you pause, reality-check, and regulate your response.

In this CBT explainer episode, we unpack Veronica Walsh's top ranking workbook on emotional reasoning - the habit of treating feelings as facts.

While emotions are valid, they are not always accurate evidence. Stress chemistry and unhelpful thinking patterns such as catastrophising or black-and-white thinking can distort perception and drive reactive behaviour.

You’ll learn practical CBT tools to ground the nervous system, step back from emotional conclusions, and respond proportionately rather than automatically. The focus is emotional regulation, clearer thinking, and better outcomes under pressure. Dive in!

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This engaging CBT explainer episode unpacks Veronica Walsh's introduction to musterbation — Albert Ellis’s term for rigid, rule-based thinking driven by musts and shoulds.

These internal demands often feel necessary, but they quietly fuel anxiety, frustration, and emotional over-reaction when life doesn’t cooperate. You’ll learn how inflexible language stresses the brain, why it undermines self-regulation, and how Cognitive Behavioural Training helps shift demand thinking into flexible preferences.

By practising unconditional acceptance — not giving up, but letting go of rigid rules — you can respond more calmly, communicate more effectively, and reduce self-sabotaging patterns.

A practical listen for anyone whose inner voice has become overly strict, absolute, or emotionally costly.

Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you’re broken — it means you’re human.

In this fun fast and engaging CBT explainer, the work of therapist Veronica Walsh teaches practical tools for working with anxiety rather than fighting it.

Using visualisation, humour, compassionate self-talk, and proven CBT strategies, you’ll learn how to interrupt spirals, respond to anxious thoughts with authority, and build calm from the inside out.

This podcast focuses on:

• Separating yourself from anxious thoughts
• Using humour and perspective to disarm worry
• Creating emotional pause through naming and labelling feelings

Building self-acceptance as a core anxiety skill

This isn’t about eliminating stress. It’s about learning how to live well alongside it — with more ease, clarity, and self-trust.

More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at CBTandFeelingGood.com and iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com.

Episodes are adapted from original top-ranking CBT resources.

Discover how your nervous system drives anxiety and learn practical Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) strategies to regulate it effectively with this accessible and easy to understand audio.

In this episode, the discussion unpacks how a dysregulated nervous system contributes to anxiety, explaining why your body often reacts before your mind can catch up — and how CBT tools can help you notice patterns and respond differently.

Drawing on one of Veronica Walsh’s most popular CBT workbooks and blog series, this episode translates complex concepts into practical, everyday strategies for managing stress, worry, and emotional challenges.

Key takeaways include:

• How the nervous system drives anxiety and stress responses
• Practical CBT exercises to regulate over-activation
• Strategies to shift from reactivity to awareness and self-management
• Tips for applying these tools in work, home, and daily life

This episode is ideal for anyone curious about the mind-body connection, seeking practical CBT strategies, or wanting to better understand how thoughts, feelings, and physiology interact.

More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at CBTandFeelingGood.com and iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com. Episodes are adapted from my original top-ranking CBT resources.

This introductory episode explains what Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is, how it works, and why it is such an effective, evidence-based approach for managing anxiety, stress, low mood, and everyday emotional challenges.

Drawing on one of Veronica Walsh’s most widely read CBT self-help articles, the episode breaks down the core principles of CBT in a clear, structured, and brain-friendly way — without jargon or oversimplification.

You’ll learn:

• What CBT therapy actually focuses on (and what it doesn’t)
• How thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and physiology interact
• Why awareness and self-regulation are central to change
• How CBT helps people respond differently to anxiety rather than fight it

This episode is ideal if you’re new to CBT, curious about therapy, or looking for practical psychological tools you can apply in everyday life.

Episodes are adapted from my written CBT resources and talks. More CBT resources, articles, and guided supports are available at iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com

Practice site: CBTandFeelingGood.com

Stuck in the same negative thinking loops? Do you find yourself overthinking, catastrophising, or ruminating on the same worries day after day? If so, you’re not alone - these are common human thinking habits, not permanent character flaws.

Bad thinking habits are learned. And they can be unlearned — with CBT.

Based on the brain-friendly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) resources of Veronica Walsh, this episode helps you build the skill of spotting unhelpful thinking patterns as they happen - giving you the power to pause, challenge them, and choose a more balanced response. Awareness is the first and most powerful step.

This introduction helps you to:

• Recognise common CBT thinking traps and cognitive distortions
• Understand why automatic thoughts feel true, even when they aren’t
• Learn simple, science-backed techniques to reframe and get unstuck
• Reduce unnecessary emotional upset — for yourself and others

Be careful what you’re saying to yourself — your body is listening. Our mental shortcuts can hijack the nervous system, keeping us anxious, stuck, or reactive. When you learn to recognise these patterns, you can begin to dismantle them, regain mental clarity, and move forward with greater calm and confidence.

Small shifts in thinking can create big changes in how you feel and live. This episode shows you how to begin — easy to understand, remember, and apply. Dive in.

Access more CBT resources - handouts, workbooks, audios and videos:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com

Overthinking and self-sabotaging again? We’ve all been there. One upsetting event can spiral into big drama. You are not alone - and it’s not a personal flaw, or a fixed personality thing.

Stress can make our bad thinking habits run wild, but the good news is we can learn to tame them - to literally 'think different' with intent, with CBT.

The human brain is a beautiful, messy machine. It’s not perfectly rational - that’s why we have poetry, art, and love… and it's also why we have anger, jealousy, and conflict. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches rational thinking skills so that you can step in and make your brain work for you, not against you.

Meet the life-changing ABC Technique of CBT. This fast, fun, engaging episode introduces the ‘ABC’ journaling model from the top-ranking workbook by Veronica Walsh - easy to understand, remember and apply…

You’ll learn how to:

• Notice and map your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours: “What am I thinking?” and “How is this making me feel and behave?”
• Identify exaggerated or unhelpful thinking patterns
• Dispute and reframe thoughts and beliefs to create healthier emotional and behavioral outcomes

Transform your self-talk. By practicing the ABC model, you can step back from automatic reactions, regain perspective, and make more emotionally intelligent choices.

Small changes in thinking habits can lead to big changes in how you feel, think, and behave. Dive in!

More CBT resources:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com

Feeling anxious over small things? Ever felt a sudden sizzle of adrenaline from an unread message, or a friend acting strangely? That’s your nervous system firing up before rational reasoning even gets a look in! Anxiety is often your biology being a nuisance - it’s not “all in your head.”

Become the Boss of Your Fight-or-Flight Biology with CBT

We are all beautiful, messy machines. Some of us are born hypervigilant; others are wired for threat by life experience. Either way, your anxiety is a signal your brain and body are trying to manage - and CBT helps you take control.

This short 12 minute episode introduces essential CBT skills adapted from a top-ranking workbook by Veronica Walsh:

You’ll learn how to:

• Clearly understand anxiety as a biological wiring issue, not a personal failing
• Regulate your nervous system with practical strategies you can use every day
• Build reframing and resetting skills through self-talk and visualization

Take the driver’s seat of your life. Reclaim calm, confidence, and control with simple, science-backed steps that are easy to understand, remember, and apply.

More CBT resources:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com