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Cognitive behavioural knowledge

Cognitive behavioural science offer useful insights into how human brains create thoughts, feelings and actions. The articles below draw on the latest cognitive, behavioural and neurological research to help you understand how brains and minds really work.

The science behind

CBT

Exposure

Behavioural activation

The simulating mind and mental models

Learn the science of how human brains create complex models of their world and use these models to build thoughts, feelings and actions.

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What is the Simulating Mind?

Everything you experience in life is heavily influenced by mental "simulations", so understanding the simulating mind can help you understand why you think, feel and act the way you do.

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Saying goodbye to avoidance

Find out why saying goodbye to avoidance may be the only way to improve your mental health and move toward a fuller, freer life.

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Mental models: the building blocks of your mind

Your brain doesn’t see the world directly - it continually weaves sensory data with memories to create mental models of reality. Learn how this happens.

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How your mental models become thoughts and feelings

Your thoughts aren’t who you are—they’re just one part of your brain’s mental modelling. Learn more about thoughts and feelings.

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Learning and how your brain updates its mental models

Find out why unlearning is impossible and growth requires patience as new experiences gradually reshape old patterns.

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The budgeting brain and your body-mind

Learn how and why your brain is always running a resource budget and how this impacts your physical and mental health.

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What is the Simulating Mind?

Everything you experience in life is heavily influenced by mental "simulations", so understanding the simulating mind can help you understand why you think, feel and act the way you do.

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Saying goodbye to avoidance

Find out why saying goodbye to avoidance may be the only way to improve your mental health and move toward a fuller, freer life.

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Mental models: the building blocks of your mind

Your brain doesn’t see the world directly - it continually weaves sensory data with memories to create mental models of reality. Learn how this happens.

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How your mental models become thoughts and feelings

Your thoughts aren’t who you are—they’re just one part of your brain’s mental modelling. Learn more about thoughts and feelings.

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Learning and how your brain updates its mental models

Find out why unlearning is impossible and growth requires patience as new experiences gradually reshape old patterns.

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Psychological literacy

The budgeting brain and your body-mind

Learn how and why your brain is always running a resource budget and how this impacts your physical and mental health.

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Psychological literacy

What is the Simulating Mind?

Everything you experience in life is heavily influenced by mental "simulations", so understanding the simulating mind can help you understand why you think, feel and act the way you do.

Read article

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Psychological literacy

Saying goodbye to avoidance

Find out why saying goodbye to avoidance may be the only way to improve your mental health and move toward a fuller, freer life.

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Psychological literacy

Mental models: the building blocks of your mind

Your brain doesn’t see the world directly - it continually weaves sensory data with memories to create mental models of reality. Learn how this happens.

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How your mental models become thoughts and feelings

Your thoughts aren’t who you are—they’re just one part of your brain’s mental modelling. Learn more about thoughts and feelings.

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Learning and how your brain updates its mental models

Find out why unlearning is impossible and growth requires patience as new experiences gradually reshape old patterns.

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The budgeting brain and your body-mind

Learn how and why your brain is always running a resource budget and how this impacts your physical and mental health.

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ACT

The symbolising mind and thinking

Learn how human brains use language to organise thoughts and understand the world, while creating some unique problems in the process.

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What is the Symbolising Mind?

Learn how your Symbolising Mind can imagine, plan, and create—but also generate painful thoughts and feelings.

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Symbolic cognition and the chatterbox in your head

Learn how symbolic cognition can create fearful stories so convincing that your body reacts as if they were real.

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Cognitive fusion and getting 'stuck' on your thoughts

Discover how cognitive fusion causes your brain to react to mental words and images as if they were real threats.

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Why you can't fight your Symbolising Mind

Learn why your mind isn’t a problem to fix, but a process to understand. Minds can be managed, but never fully controlled.

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What is the Symbolising Mind?

Learn how your Symbolising Mind can imagine, plan, and create—but also generate painful thoughts and feelings.

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Symbolic cognition and the chatterbox in your head

Learn how symbolic cognition can create fearful stories so convincing that your body reacts as if they were real.

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ACT

Cognitive fusion and getting 'stuck' on your thoughts

Discover how cognitive fusion causes your brain to react to mental words and images as if they were real threats.

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ACT

Why you can't fight your Symbolising Mind

Learn why your mind isn’t a problem to fix, but a process to understand. Minds can be managed, but never fully controlled.

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ACT

What is the Symbolising Mind?

Learn how your Symbolising Mind can imagine, plan, and create—but also generate painful thoughts and feelings.

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ACT

Symbolic cognition and the chatterbox in your head

Learn how symbolic cognition can create fearful stories so convincing that your body reacts as if they were real.

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ACT

Cognitive fusion and getting 'stuck' on your thoughts

Discover how cognitive fusion causes your brain to react to mental words and images as if they were real threats.

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Why you can't fight your Symbolising Mind

Learn why your mind isn’t a problem to fix, but a process to understand. Minds can be managed, but never fully controlled.

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CBT

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The socialising mind and interpersonal anxieties

Learn how your sense of self comes about, what it really means, and why socialising and relationships can cause us so much anxiety.

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What is the Socialising Mind?

Learn how your Socialising Mind evolved to track, interpret, and predict the thoughts and feelings of others, causing anxiety and shame in the process.

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Anxiety, shame, and your belonging budget

Understanding your belonging budget - your brain’s way of tracking how 'good enough' you are - can help you reconnect with others more calmly and authentically.

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What the ‘self’ is and why you don't have to worry about 'who you are'

Learn how the self is a process, not a thing, and how this knowledge can replace judgement with compassion while still upholding accountability and healthy boundaries.

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Social anxiety and the feared self

Learn why you needn't fear or shame yourself for your thoughts and feelings, and how understanding your mind can foster compassion and connection.

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What is the Socialising Mind?

Learn how your Socialising Mind evolved to track, interpret, and predict the thoughts and feelings of others, causing anxiety and shame in the process.

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Anxiety, shame, and your belonging budget

Understanding your belonging budget - your brain’s way of tracking how 'good enough' you are - can help you reconnect with others more calmly and authentically.

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What the ‘self’ is and why you don't have to worry about 'who you are'

Learn how the self is a process, not a thing, and how this knowledge can replace judgement with compassion while still upholding accountability and healthy boundaries.

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Social anxiety and the feared self

Learn why you needn't fear or shame yourself for your thoughts and feelings, and how understanding your mind can foster compassion and connection.

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Psychological literacy

What is the Socialising Mind?

Learn how your Socialising Mind evolved to track, interpret, and predict the thoughts and feelings of others, causing anxiety and shame in the process.

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Psychological literacy

Anxiety, shame, and your belonging budget

Understanding your belonging budget - your brain’s way of tracking how 'good enough' you are - can help you reconnect with others more calmly and authentically.

Read article

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Psychological literacy

What the ‘self’ is and why you don't have to worry about 'who you are'

Learn how the self is a process, not a thing, and how this knowledge can replace judgement with compassion while still upholding accountability and healthy boundaries.

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