Identify resulting thoughts from difficult experiences.
Your resulting thoughts about difficult experiences matter.
When you experience something painful, it often leaves an imprint, a mark, a tattoo of negative beliefs.
Negative beliefs can mold how you feel and think about yourself. Negative beliefs can impact how you interpret experiences and information.
Here is a fairly extensive list of negative beliefs and cognitions that may come out of difficult experiences. Read through the list, which ones can you identify with?
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