{"id":30,"date":"2012-09-15T22:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T05:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T18:02:52","slug":"cbt-exercise-dealing-with-my-shocking-reaction-to-emmas-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/cbt-exercise-dealing-with-my-shocking-reaction-to-emmas-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"CBT exercise dealing with my shocking reaction to Emma’s birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about how sad and overwhelmed I felt when Emma was born.<\/p>\n

Here I am sharing a CBT exercise<\/a> where I’ve written about this stressful moment.<\/p>\n

My therapist told me that the idea is to clearly separate three aspects of the stressful moment: a description of the situation, a reports of what my emotions where with their intensity, and a description of what I was thinking at the time with my level of certainty of what I was thinking.<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of this Stress Log:<\/p>\n

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When I was holding Emma in the hospital I felt overwhelmed, sad and guilty. I felt like I was \u00a0a terrible mother. My therapist has explained to me that it is not very helpful to say “I feel like a terrible mother”. I understand now that being a terrible mother is not really a feeling, but a thought, or an idea that might very well be true. But it also might not be true.\u00a0And\u00a0if I am not a terrible mother I better stop thinking I am one because it really makes me feel bad.<\/p>\n

You can practice online CBT exercises like this at MindQuire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written before about how sad and overwhelmed I felt when Emma was born. Here I am sharing a CBT exercise where I’ve written about this stressful moment. My therapist told me that the idea is to clearly separate three aspects of the stressful moment: a description of the situation, a reports of what my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbt-examples.com\/mia\/cbt-post-partum-depression-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}