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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (horrible name) is a wonderful skills-based approach to re-framing your beliefs to something more reasonable and balanced. Most CBT therapists now include Mindfulness as part of the process. It makes sense because mindfulness is all about awareness of our feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Eventually, they will add self-compassion training to the process because without it, being more aware can lead us to judge what we are becoming aware of. Self-compassion teaches us to recognize a challenge and separate that from self-judgment.

Practitioner-supported mindfulness-based cognitive therapy aids depression Practitioner-supported, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy self-help (MBCT-SH) is superior to standard recommended treatment for mild-to-moderate depression, according to a study published online March 22 in JAMA Psychiatry.