Curious what CBT is and how it can help you manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviours? This episode makes it simple, practical, and memorable.

These audios give you a fun, engaging, banter-style listening experience in a way that brains love - it is 'therapy as learning' - start a fascinating journey that teaches life-changing skills.

In this lively CBT explainer, Veronica Walsh’s core ideas are broken down into easy-to-grasp concepts you can actually use – starting today. You’ll learn why CBT is one of the most effective tools for managing anxiety, stress, and everyday emotional challenges.

Key takeaways:

• How thoughts, physiology , emotions, and behaviours interact
• Why awareness and self-regulation are central to change
• How to respond differently to anxiety rather than fight it
• Practical steps – easy to understand, remember and apply

This episode is ideal if you’re new to CBT, curious about therapy, or looking for practical psychological tools you can apply in everyday life.

Episodes are adapted from my top ranking original CBT resources - guided supports are available at iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com

CBT Ireland Practice site: CBTandFeelingGood.com

Ever feel like your anxiety is running the show? This episode shows how a dysregulated nervous system drives anxiety - and how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy skills can help you take back control.

These audios give you a fun, engaging, banter-style listening experience in a way that brains love - it is 'therapy as learning', a fascinating journey that teaches life-changing skills.

This engaging long form 40 minute CBT explainer episode based on Veronica Walsh's top workbook resources makes the mind-body link clear and actionable - and translates complex concepts into practical, everyday strategies for managing stress, worry, and emotional challenges with simple CBT tools..

You’ll learn why your body reacts before your mind can catch up -

Key takeaways:

• How the nervous system drives anxiety and stress responses
• Practical CBT exercises to self-regulate
• Strategies to shift from automatic reactivity to awareness and self-management
• Tips and examples for applying these tools in work, home, and daily life

This episode is ideal for anyone curious about the mind-body connection, seeking practical CBT strategies, or wanting to better understand how thoughts, feelings, and physiology interact. Dive in!

Episodes are adapted from my original top-ranking CBT resources at: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com.

Practice site Ireland: CBTandFeelingGood.com

Learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) uses self-acceptance and practical tools to help you understand and manage anxiety rather than fight it.

Feeling anxious doesn’t mean you’re broken — it means you’re human.

In this fast, engaging CBT explainer, core ideas from Veronica Walsh’s CBT work are unpacked to show how self-acceptance can become a powerful anxiety regulation skill, rather than a passive mindset.

Using visualisation, humour, compassionate self-talk, and proven CBT strategies, this episode explores how to interrupt anxiety spirals, respond to anxious thoughts with greater authority, and build calm from the inside out.

This episode focuses on:

• Separating yourself from anxious thoughts
• Using humour and perspective to disarm worry
• Creating emotional pause through naming and labelling feelings
• Building self-acceptance as a core anxiety skill

This isn’t about eliminating stress. It’s about learning how to live well alongside it — with more ease, clarity, and self-trust. Dive in!

More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at CBTandFeelingGood.com and iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com.

Episodes are adapted from original top-ranking CBT resources.

Learn how rigid “must” and “should” thinking fuels anxiety — and how CBT helps you replace demands with flexibility and self-acceptance.

This engaging CBT explainer unpacks musterbation — Albert Ellis’s term for rigid, rule-based thinking driven by internal musts, shoulds, and have-tos.

These internal demands often feel necessary or motivating, but they quietly increase anxiety, frustration, and emotional over-reaction when life doesn’t cooperate. In this episode, you’ll learn how inflexible language stresses the brain, undermines self-regulation, and keeps people stuck in cycles of self-criticism and pressure.

Drawing on core CBT principles, the episode explores how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps shift demand thinking into flexible preferences, without giving up standards, values, or personal responsibility.

This episode focuses on:

• What “musterbation” really means in CBT
• How rigid thinking increases emotional reactivity
• The role of language in stress and self-pressure
• Practising unconditional acceptance without passivity
• Responding more calmly and effectively when things don’t go to plan

This is a practical listen for anyone whose inner voice has become overly strict, absolute, or emotionally costly — and who wants to think more flexibly without lowering their standards.

More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com. Episodes are adapted from my original top-ranking CBT resources.

Practice site: CBTandFeelingGood.com

Learn how Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps you step back from emotional reasoning and regulate your responses more effectively.

Do strong emotional responses often hijack your ‘rational reasoning’, and cause you to respond to stressors in a dramatic unhelpful way? When you look back do you wish you had responded in a different way that was proportional to the event, and that got you a better outcome?

Try CBT Tools for Emotional Regulation

These audios give you a fun, engaging, banter-style listening experience in a way that brains love. Take a fascinating journey that teaches life-changing skills with a ‘therapy as learning’ approach.

This CBT explainer episode unpacks core ideas from Veronica Walsh’s top-ranking workbook on the bad habit of ‘emotional reasoning’.

While emotions are valid and important signals, when stress is in the driving seat they can be way out of proportion to the actual event. Stress chemistry and unhelpful thinking patterns can distort perception and drive messy behaviour. Undistort it with CBT!

This episode explores how CBT helps you:

• Recognise emotional reasoning as a thinking habit
• Separate feelings from facts without suppressing emotion
• Ground the nervous system during emotional surges
• Step back from automatic conclusions
• Respond more proportionately under pressure

The focus is emotional regulation, rational thinking, and better outcomes in everyday situations where emotions run high. Dive in!

(More CBT resources, guides, and audio supports are available at iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com. Episodes are adapted from original top-ranking CBT resources.

Practice site: CBTandFeelingGood.com

Feeling anxious over small things? Ever felt a sudden sizzle of adrenaline from an unread message, or a friend acting strangely? That’s your nervous system firing up before rational reasoning even gets a look in! Anxiety is often your biology being a nuisance - it’s not “all in your head.”

Become the Boss of Your Fight-or-Flight Biology with CBT

We are all beautiful, messy machines. Some of us are born hypervigilant; others are wired for threat by life experience. Either way, your anxiety is a signal your brain and body are trying to manage - and CBT helps you take control.

This short 12 minute episode introduces essential CBT skills adapted from a top-ranking workbook by Veronica Walsh:

You’ll learn how to:

• Clearly understand anxiety as a biological wiring issue, not a personal failing
• Regulate your nervous system with practical strategies you can use every day
• Build reframing and resetting skills through self-talk and visualization

Take the driver’s seat of your life. Reclaim calm, confidence, and control with simple, science-backed steps that are easy to understand, remember, and apply.

More CBT resources:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com

Overthinking and self-sabotaging again? We’ve all been there. One upsetting event can spiral into big drama. You are not alone - and it’s not a personal flaw, or a fixed personality thing.

Stress can make our bad thinking habits run wild, but the good news is we can learn to tame them - to literally 'think different' with intent, with CBT.

The human brain is a beautiful, messy machine. It’s not perfectly rational - that’s why we have poetry, art, and love… and it's also why we have anger, jealousy, and conflict. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches rational thinking skills so that you can step in and make your brain work for you, not against you.

Meet the life-changing ABC Technique of CBT. This fast, fun, engaging episode introduces the ‘ABC’ journaling model from the top-ranking workbook by Veronica Walsh - easy to understand, remember and apply…

You’ll learn how to:

• Notice and map your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours: “What am I thinking?” and “How is this making me feel and behave?”
• Identify exaggerated or unhelpful thinking patterns
• Dispute and reframe thoughts and beliefs to create healthier emotional and behavioral outcomes

Transform your self-talk. By practicing the ABC model, you can step back from automatic reactions, regain perspective, and make more emotionally intelligent choices.

Small changes in thinking habits can lead to big changes in how you feel, think, and behave. Dive in!

More CBT resources:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com

Stuck in the same negative thinking loops? Do you find yourself overthinking, catastrophising, or ruminating on the same worries day after day? If so, you’re not alone - these are common human thinking habits, not permanent character flaws.

Bad thinking habits are learned. And they can be unlearned — with CBT.

Based on the brain-friendly Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) resources of Veronica Walsh, this episode helps you build the skill of spotting unhelpful thinking patterns as they happen - giving you the power to pause, challenge them, and choose a more balanced response. Awareness is the first and most powerful step.

This introduction helps you to:

• Recognise common CBT thinking traps and cognitive distortions
• Understand why automatic thoughts feel true, even when they aren’t
• Learn simple, science-backed techniques to reframe and get unstuck
• Reduce unnecessary emotional upset — for yourself and others

Be careful what you’re saying to yourself — your body is listening. Our mental shortcuts can hijack the nervous system, keeping us anxious, stuck, or reactive. When you learn to recognise these patterns, you can begin to dismantle them, regain mental clarity, and move forward with greater calm and confidence.

Small shifts in thinking can create big changes in how you feel and live. This episode shows you how to begin — easy to understand, remember, and apply. Dive in.

Access more CBT resources - handouts, workbooks, audios and videos:

• Blog & free guides: iVeronicaWalsh.wordpress.com
• CBT practice (Ireland): CBTandFeelingGood.com