What is Cognitive Defusion? To understand cognitive defusion, it can be helpful to talk about it’s opposite… cognitive fusion. Cognitive fusion occurs when we become fused with our thoughts. We sometimes refer to this as being hooked by our thoughts. We can tell we have been hooked by a thought when we start replaying the…

If we’ve talked about mindfulness in a session, this is the longer explanation to come back to in your own time. It covers what mindfulness actually is, what it isn’t, and some practical ways to build the skill. Mind Full or Mindful? Have you ever driven somewhere familiar and arrived with no real memory of…

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is a topic often discussed in therapy. Given the explosion in interest in mindfulness, many people have heard of mindfulness even if they haven’t practiced it. For the uninitiated, mindfulness is “the practice of giving complete and non-judgmental attention to one’s present experience” (Collins, 2023). Mindfulness practice may take many forms; and as it is simply…