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		<title>Overthinking: Common Questions (and Answers) from Therapy</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2026/06/12/overthinking-common-questions-and-answers-from-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Overthinking often lurks beneath the surface of the struggles people bring to therapy. Yet we rarely pause to ask: What do we hope to gain by thinking so much? Most people don’t overthink because they enjoy it. They do it because it feels useful: a way to prepare, avoid mistakes, or find certainty in uncertainty. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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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[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;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>If You’re Not Playing, You’re Missing a Great Capacity</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2025/12/17/if-youre-not-playing-youre-missing-a-great-capacity/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Play is wonderful. It may not rhyme with efficiency or productivity. In modern life, productivity has become a moral imperative, right? Time must be justified. Even rest is expected to “pay off.” In that context, play can seem pointless. Yet when play disappears, mental rigidity increases. Research consistently links play-like states to cognitive flexibility, emotional [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Stress Itself Harmful? A Closer Look at the TED Talk by Kelly McGonigal &#8220;How to Make Stress Your Friend&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2025/12/02/stress-beliefs/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When Kelly McGonigal’s TED Talk went viral back in 2013, many walked away with a striking message: “Stress only harms you if you believe it does.” It’s a compelling idea — the notion that the mind can reshape the body’s stress response. A decade later, the talk has surpassed 50 million views across platforms. With [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Believing That Thoughts Are Important to Control Increases the Perception of Stress, Experiment Shows</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2024/08/05/believing-that-thoughts-are-important-to-control-increases-the-perception-of-stress-experiment-shows/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2017, Capobianco, Morrison, and Wells conducted an experiment to asses how the belief in the importance of thoughts (a negative metacognitive belief) affects people&#8217;s stress responses. 75 students (54 women, 21 men) participated in the experiment, and they went through the Trier Social Stress Test, in which they were given a short period to prepare [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 6 Thought Control and Overthinking</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2023/05/16/inside-the-mind-of-a-metacognitive-therapist-part-6-thought-control-and-overthinking/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2023 09:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a metacognitive therapist, I meet people who try to control their thoughts and feelings in various, sometimes creative, ways. People who try to get rid of certain thoughts, people who try to suppress their anxious feelings, people who try to get piece of mind by seeking answers that can bring their minds to peace. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Perfect Paradox: Chasing Perfection Makes You Feel Worse and Procrastinate More, Research Shows</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2022/10/13/chasing-perfection/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When we feel self-inadequacy, we might try to do more as an attempt to feel better about ourselves. This, however, might result in a vicious cycle characterized by high self-standards that are difficult to live up to, which in turn contributes to even more self-inadequacy in the long run. We may strive to feel better [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking Too Much About the Future? Accept Uncertainty as a Life Partner Using Metacognitive Methods</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2021/04/22/thinking-too-much-about-the-future-accept-uncertainty-as-a-life-partner-using-metacognitive-methods/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 08:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I assume that most people think about their futures to some degree, but the difference between thinking and overthinking may be the difference between feeling uncertain and feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty. This post addresses the consequences of thinking too much and how to handle it. To describe this further, I choose to label overthinking as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Think Less to Overcome Depression, New Treatment Paradigm Suggests (Why You Should Know About Metacognitive Therapy)</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2020/07/29/think-less-to-overcome-depression/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new study by psychologist Pia Callesen, published in the reputable journal Scientific Reports in Nature (2020), shows that Metacognitive Therapy is way more effective in treating depression than usual treatment. The study is interesting as the treatment represents a whole new way of understanding and treating depression, which is why I refer to it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Anger Impairs People&#8217;s Cognitive Scope, Study Shows</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2015/08/08/anger-impairs-cognitive-scope/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2015 16:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The fact that anger can have adverse effects on behavior is evident. When people get angry, they behave in ways that they normally would not do. So, anger seems to impair or even block rational thinking. New experimental research by Gable, Poole, and Harmon-Jones (2015), published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, supports the idea that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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