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		<title>How Exposure Helps Anxiety Lose Its Power—In Therapy and in Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Self is Not a Private Project: The Hidden Cost of Self-Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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;]]]></description>
		
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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[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;]]]></description>
		
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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>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2024/04/11/exercise-studies/</link>
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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[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;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 8 Detached Mindfulness Techniques</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this post, I follow up on how detached mindfulness can be applied in therapy and in everyday situations. This is my last post in the series Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist. You may want to catch up on the other posts as well if this topic has your interest. In Adrian Well&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 6 Thought Control and Overthinking</title>
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		<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>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist &#8211; Part 5 Changing Focus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2023 13:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In this series, I dwell on my own experiences of metacogntive therapy from my perspective as a therapist. In this post, I want to show you what role the focus of attention plays when it comes to mental health and the treatment of it. I am sure that you are already aware of how your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist &#8211; Part 4  Get Rid of or Get Good at?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 13:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes when I ask people about their goal of attending therapy, they might say that they want to get rid of negative thoughts and feelings, such as anxious or depressive thoughts. At other times, they might say that they want to get better at dealing with certain situations. If the goal is to get rid [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 3 The Meta-Level Dialogue</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2023/05/01/inside-the-mind-of-a-metacognitive-therapist-part-3-the-meta-level-dialogue/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2023 17:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I want to share with you how the dialogue in metacognitive therapy is different from other talk therapies that I have done, from my point of view as a therapist. In metacognitive therapy sessions, I try to keep most of the dialogue at the meta-level (metacognitive mode), instead of at the content-level (object mode). A [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Think Less to Overcome Depression, New Treatment Paradigm Suggests (Why You Should Know About Metacognitive Therapy)</title>
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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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