Our ideas inform our reality. This can be a blessing, but is more often a curse. Indeed, if we were to dive into our minds and have a good hard look at the ideas and expectations rooted within, we’d most likely find a tonne of unhelpful, outdated, irrational assumptions and negative self-talk that too often wield too much power over us. In the cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) tradition, these are referred to as cognitive distortions, or cognitive errors. These forms of sel