Greetings. It's been a while since I wrote a blog entry as I had a baby last October and it's kind of amazing how real baby-brain is, which makes writing feel exponentially harder. Especially when they don't sleep very well. He's 5 months old now and is being gracious enough to let me sleep in 3-4 hour increments. So I have that going for me. Steph kicked off our 2015 blog series on Cognitive Distortions , or as some say "thinking traps" with a nice piece on using a Negative Filter when evaluating our life. If you haven't read it, go check it out . For March, the topic is Dichotomous Thinking. As it implies, dichotomous thinking is only seeing a situation from two potential angles. It's all or nothing. Good or bad. Black or White. There's not much room for any grey area. But, if we take a step back we see that life is full of grey areas and it's actually less likely that we're operating in one of the extremes. So why do
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