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		<title>Adapting Is Not Being Fake: What Research Says About Authenticity and Self-Monitoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The problem was never the mask. The problem is forgetting YOU are wearing one.&#8221; You speak differently to your boss than to your best friend. You soften your tone at a funeral and raise your energy at a party. You read the room, and you adjust. Most of us do this without thinking. But many [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>When the Body Reacts, the Mind Makes Meaning: How Emotions Take Shape</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>How Emotions Take Shape Over Time We often talk about emotions as if they simply appear. Anxiety hits. Anger flares. Joy arrives. This makes emotions sound like automatic signals sent by the body — clear, direct, and almost self-explanatory. But psychological research suggests something more nuanced: Emotions or feelings are something that take shape depending [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>How Exposure Helps Anxiety Lose Its Power—In Therapy and in Life</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Exposure Works When Learning Happens “Face your fear” usually refers to deliberately entering situations that trigger difficult thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations. Why would anyone do that—when it feels so bad? Exposure is an effective treatment with large effect sizes, evidence shows (Olatunji et al., 2010). When exposure fails, it is rarely because exposure itself [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Self is Not a Private Project: The Hidden Cost of Self-Focus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Modern psychology sometimes treats the individual mind as if it exists in a vacuum. Thoughts are analysed in isolation. Emotions are framed as personal deficits. Distress becomes something happening inside the person. But this view is historically naïve. Philip Cushman’s classic article Why the Self Is Empty (1990) reminds us of something uncomfortable: the way [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Mental Health Anxiety: How Worry Creates the Very Symptoms You Fear</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>When we don’t know what falls within the normal range of the mind, we can easily misinterpret our thoughts or feelings as dangerous or harmful. The same applies to physical symptoms: Am I just catching a cold, or am I seriously ill? Is this ordinary, or something I must act on immediately?  In Metacognitive Therapy [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>How Children Learn to Worry, and How They Break Free</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>&#160; Metacognitive therapy (hereafter MCT) is a rather new and effective treatment for anxiety disorders. Studies comparing MCT with usual treatment find MCT superior (1, 2). A 2024 meta-analysis shows that metacognitive beliefs are present in children as well as adults and that they are related to psychological distress in children (3). MCT is based [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>The Brainheimers: A Child&#8217;s Guide to Minimizing Worry and Anxiety (Book Trailer)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Brainheimers &#8211; Book Trailer You can get it here at Amazon. The audiobook can be found on Audible, Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Deezer, and these streaming sites in the next couple of days. A Child’s Metacognitive Guide to Grasping and Minimizing Worry For children: All thoughts live peacefully side by side in [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Emotional Dysregulation&#8217; is Related to Five Metacognitive Beliefs in Children, Meta-Analysis Shows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>A new meta-analysis by Thingbak and colleagues (2024) finds that metacognitive beliefs are related to emotional dysregulation in children and adolescents, aged 7-18 years, in a sample of almost 10,000 participants. The same has been found in adults. The following quote may help you grasp the idea of metacognitions, and why they are so important [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist &#8211; A Series of 8 Posts</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Each post is a 5 min read into Metacognitive Therapy. While it took me 25 hours to write these blog posts, it will take you about 30 minutes to read them all. Enjoy your dive. Introduction to Metacognitive Therapy Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 1 The Basics Inside the Mind of [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>Physical Activity Should Be a Key Component in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety, Review of 1000 Trials Shows</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Is physical activity really as effective as antidepressants and psychotherapy for treating symptoms of depression and anxiety? The largest review so far, summing up the results of over 1000 studies (all randomized controlled trials), shows that the effects of physical activity on symptoms of depression and anxiety are similar or even slightly better than the [&#8230;]</p>
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