Schema Therapy 101: Practical Tools for Emotional Healing and Recovery.
Feeling trapped by life traps schema therapy or struggling with addiction? Substance Stories brings you Schema Therapy 101: Practical Tools for Emotional Healing and Recovery! Dr. Richard Bradlow and Nathan Akoka unpack schema therapy, a game-changer for mental health and addiction and schemas.
Wondering why you repeat unhealthy patterns? Maladaptive schemas—like abandonment schema or angry child schema therapy—stem from unmet core emotional needs like secure attachment, autonomy, competence, identity, emotional validation, attunement, spontaneity, and limit setting.
Nathan, inspired by Jeff Young’s schema therapy education, explains how subconscious beliefs shape self-concept and interpersonal relationships. Discover schema therapy all schemas, including schema therapy BPD, and how moods schema therapy reveals child modes (vulnerable child), coping modes (detached protector, detached self-soother), and critical voices (punitive critic, demanding critic).
Learn schema coping styles—avoidance, surrendering, overcompensation—and how they fuel addiction and schemas.This episode dives into schema therapy exercises like chair work to create corrective emotional experiences, offering practical mental health tools for emotional healing.
Dr. Bradlow and Nathan highlight schema mode techniques to address vulnerable child struggles and rewire maladaptive schemas for secure attachment.
With a strong evidence base for addiction and schemas, depression, and personality disorders, schema therapy empowers you to break free from subconscious beliefs.Whether you’re navigating interpersonal relationships or seeking schema therapy education, this schema therapy guide is your roadmap.
Packed with insights on the schema therapy exercise and coping modes, it’s a must-watch for mental health recovery. Download our FREE schema therapy resource—link in the show notes! Subscribe for more emotional healing tips!
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Chapters:
00:00 Childhood Impact on Abandonment Beliefs
03:43 Coping Styles in Abandonment Issues
08:44 Self-Perception and Addiction Struggles
11:39 Understanding Psychological Modes
16:20 "Schema Therapy: Emotional Interventions"
17:15 Therapy: Engaging Inner Critics
21:19 "Reacquainting with Our Sober Minds
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