Group Session 4/2026

 I got behind on my session notes, the last I can find is from 1/2/2026, and so let's go.

4/3

How to identify

• journal
• label
• graying - scaled distortion
• listing evidence against
• list all possibilities

More towards anxiety issues:

1. So what?
2. Paradoxical intention 

4/10: 

PI (Paradoxical intention): chill out. okay to panic. Just because you have urges, no need to act.

1. ask yourself questions: *** cognitive, above or beyond situtation - get to an endgame/goal
2. next step - ask other person, questions wo/ shouldn't blaming & listen wo/ deflection. 

4/24: 

Taking a bird's eye view

Seeing things from above 

G.V. (God's view) - makes everything seem smaller 

Yep, that is all I have in my notes. Of course, we did our weekly check-ins. 

 I started this post on 4/24. This is what else I wrote then:

The fellow leading the group sessions on Friday said something on 4/24 about me getting out, as if I need to be more sociable. Having spent too much time the past two months being ill and lethargic and not getting much work done here, I would like to get out more.

I mentioned this issue to my friend E. She remarked that I have always been a loner. What I told her, it is not so much that I am a loner; I just do not want to impose on others or be imposed upon. Just being social to be social does not suit me. I prefer the friends I have, and what time I have left needs to be for them. This writing group I've been going to has been a good thing. I was talking to another friend last night. I do not feel trapped in my life, as I once did. It is also that I do not feel alone. 

Finding someone who might provide a better conversation than I what I get from my writing seems unlikely.or

Speaking of a global viewpoint, Austin Kleon's How to get some cosmic perspective gives a better explanation of this idea.

sch 5/26