Topic
CBT
13 articles
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: The Therapy That Doesn't Argue
You've been told for years to challenge the thought and find the evidence against it. There is an entire therapy built on the premise that the argument was never the move.
July 18, 2026
Cognitive Restructuring: You Noticed the Thought, Now What?
You can name the distortion at 3 a.m. and it changes nothing. The step that resolves the thought is the one nobody taught you — and it isn't aimed where you think.
July 16, 2026
The ABC Model: The Diagram Epictetus Drew Without a Whiteboard
The ABC model looks like three tidy letters on a therapist's whiteboard. It is really a first-century Stoic claim, formalised — and the hard part is the letter nobody can see.
July 8, 2026
Stoic Therapy: Does It Work — and Is It a Real Therapy?
Stoic therapy is a real mental discipline — but not a substitute for a therapist. Where it helps, and where it stops.
June 6, 2026
What Catastrophizing Actually Means — and Why Your Brain Does It
Catastrophizing is your mind treating the worst-case story as the likely one. Here's the mechanism — and the ancient practice that inverts it.
May 24, 2026
Cognitive Distortions: What Beck's List Actually Describes
The list names what your mind does. It doesn't explain why knowing the name doesn't stop it. That explanation predates Beck by two thousand years.
May 19, 2026
Emotional Regulation Techniques — What They're Actually Doing
Every emotional regulation technique targets the same thing. Here's the mechanism — and the Stoic who described it first.
May 18, 2026
Stoicism and Depression — Not the Way Most People Think
Stoicism gestures at exactly the right thing. Then stops working at the exact moment the weight gets heaviest. Here's an honest account of why.
May 15, 2026
CBT Techniques for Emotional Regulation — Why They Work
CBT techniques for emotional regulation work. Almost no one explains the mechanism. Here's the Stoic origin that makes them legible.
May 13, 2026
Why Thinking Patterns Are Hard to Change — What Fixes It
You know the technique. You've tried it. It still doesn't work under pressure. The problem isn't effort — it's that nobody explained what you're actually doing.
May 13, 2026
Socratic Questioning: The Ancient Self-Examination Practice
CBT teaches Socratic questioning as a clinical technique. What it left out is the part Socrates considered essential: the questions were always directed inward first.
May 10, 2026
The First Flash of Anger Wasn't Yours — Seneca on De Ira
The flash of anger that arrives before you've decided anything — Seneca said that wasn't yours. He mapped three stages in De Ira. CBT found the same structure 1,900 years later.
May 9, 2026
Albert Ellis Built CBT from Epictetus — How It Happened
Cognitive behavioural therapy is the most rigorously tested psychological treatment in existence — and Albert Ellis built it from Epictetus.
May 5, 2026