The Empowered Catholic Podcast
The Empowered Catholic Podcast
Karen and Curtis Herbert
191 | Thought Traps: Silly Brain Tricks 1
25 minutes Posted Oct 15, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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Humans (like you for instance) have some habits of thinking that are traps. We all fall into them, repeatedly. You have to laugh! These traps can shut down our thinking before we realize it, leaving us stuck or making poor choices because the traps often work at an unconscious level. Asking great questions is the key to uncovering thought traps. We discuss and share examples of some of them, like Mind Reading, Fortune-Telling, Catastrophizing, Labeling, Discounting Positives, Negative Filtering, Overgeneralizing, All-or-Nothing Thinking, and the infamous Shoulds. Listen and decide which one is your favorite, so you can work on it this week. Haha, tell us which one your spouse or friend falls into the most.  ;) This is a re-presentation of episode 74. 



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