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		<title>Overthinking: Common Questions (and Answers) from Therapy</title>
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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>Rumination: Does Thinking Things All Over Again Actually Help?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We think rumination will untangle the knot, but it only tightens it.&#8221; Returning to the same thoughts again and again, especially when something feels unresolved or difficult? This kind of thinking process is labeled as rumination in psychology studies. It can feel like a form of problem solving. Many people experience it as an attempt [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When the Body Reacts, the Mind Makes Meaning: How Emotions Take Shape</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2026/03/04/when-the-body-reacts-the-mind-makes-meaning-how-emotions-take-shape/</link>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[Emotions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
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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>How Exposure Helps Anxiety Lose Its Power—In Therapy and in Life</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2026/02/01/how-exposure-helps-anxiety-lose-its-power/</link>
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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[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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Simon Moesgaard]]></dc:creator>
		<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>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>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist &#8211; A Series of 8 Posts</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2024/06/29/inside-the-mind-of-a-metacognitive-therapist-a-series-of-8-posts/</link>
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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[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;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Inside the Mind of a Metacognitive Therapist – Part 8 Detached Mindfulness Techniques</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2023/08/08/inside-the-mind-of-a-metacognitive-therapist-part-8-detached-mindfulness-techniques/</link>
		
		<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 &#8211; Part 5 Changing Focus</title>
		<link>https://reflectd.co/2023/05/09/inside-the-mind-of-a-metacognitive-therapist-part-5-changing-focus/</link>
		
		<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 – 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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