Viktor Frankl was a psychologist and a survivor of Auschwitz.

He studied how some trauma survivors manage to maintain their hope and optimism through trauma and discovered that it was in the way they thought about their situation. Other psychologists have continued this work and it is now widely recognised as a protective factor.

https://psychcentral.com/lib/challenging-our-cognitive-distortions-and-creating-positive-outlooks/

We are all suffering uncertainty, loss and grief due to the changes COVID-19 has enforced in our lives. It is natural to feel moments of grief, anger, frustration, sadness, anxiety.

The skill to practice this week is how to challenge our thinking so that we don't hang on to the grief, anger, frustration, anxiety and sadness.

The skill is to recognise the thoughts that encourage holding on to negativity and looking at them from different perspectives so that they can be reframed as more helpful thoughts.

Use the worksheet to record the thoughts that are leading to grief, sadness, frustration, anxiety, anger and other unhelpful emotions and try reframing them into thoughts that encourage a more helpful perspective.

As new thoughts arise add them to the worksheet and change them too!

If you are framing your thinking from a helpful space already ignore the unhelpful thoughts list. Just list the thoughts that are helping you manage the current situation with calm and tolerance!

if you are interested in more detail on how to do this look at this article from Psych Central -

https://psychcentral.com/lib/challenging-negative-self-talk/