What’s Going On With All These Thoughts? :: [Episode 31]

As Season 3 comes to an end, so does 2023. Jenni and Suze reflect on how the approaching holiday season and new year can bring challenges. They suggest it’s a perfect time to observe ourselves and reduce the chances of reacting impulsively and regretting it.

They presented questions to ask and a simple acronym to help themselves and listeners remember to observe themselves more than they observe others. They explained their concept of PAUSE, describing the meaning of each letter of the word.

Find their handy tools to PAUSE at www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts. Download the graphic to your phone to have easy access to remember to PAUSE, no matter where you are or what you’re doing!

Suze and Jenni hope the end of the year is loving and revitalizing, and that 2024 starts out wonderfully!

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at https://www.authenticinsights.com.  

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who works with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

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Jenni and Suze created a booklet compiling skills from coaching and therapy to help them and listeners debunk and dispute thinking. They highly encourage anyone to download it for free from their website: www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts. 

In the booklet, there are three journaling exercises. Jenni chose one of the therapy techniques, and Suze chose the coaching method of debunking limiting beliefs. Both shared how the techniques worked for them, and both experienced a lot of benefits from the exercises they chose. 

They hope listeners will try out any of the techniques in the booklet, and they offer support to anyone needing it. 

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at https://www.authenticinsights.com.  

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who works with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

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Jenni and Suze have spent this season identifying thinking and thoughts that can be challenging. What do listeners do now? You learn how to debunk limiting beliefs. You also learn how to untwist distorted thinking and dispute irrational beliefs.

To help with this undertaking, Suze and Jenni have created a gift for everyone, including themselves! Go to insightmaximizers.com/handouts to download the FREE debunking and disputing booklet. It has the instructions for this episode’s Maxer Method as well as all the handouts needed to easily do the tasks. 

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at https://www.authenticinsights.com.  

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who works with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

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In a constant effort this season to understand the impact thinking has on us, Suze and Jenni reviewed the Insight Maximizers definition of a belief and coaching work on empowering beliefs, limiting beliefs, and self-limiting beliefs.

Both practiced the Maxer Method from the last episode, journaling despite their resistance. Jenni has had years of coaching herself, and she was still able to learn a new self-limiting belief. This was Suze’s first attempt at looking at self-limiting beliefs, so it was reassuring to know that there are always new insights to be had! She benefited from Jenni's handout for limiting and empowering beliefs, which can be found at www.insightmaximizers.com/handouts.  Jenni was instrumental in helping Suze dig deeper and identify the true self-limiting belief from a thought that Suze labeled as a limiting belief. 

Ultimately, Suze and Jenni hope their listeners will find support and encouragement when listening to them discuss their experiences with the Maxer Method. 

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas who works with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

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In their continued search for insights into the impact of thoughts, Jenni and Suze discuss coaching concepts about limiting and empowering beliefs. Coaching is a culmination of human’s lifelong search for the “good life,” from the times of Aristotle all the way to the influence of Positive Psychology, as Jenni gives us a little history and context. 

To create a better life, we have to look at how our thinking influences every aspect of us. Jenni educates us about the difference between limiting and empowering beliefs, including looking at how limiting beliefs are different from distorted thinking and irrational beliefs that they discussed earlier this season.

Jenni created a handout to use in this episode’s Maxer Method. Please look for the Beliefs Checklist at insightmaximizers.com/handouts. They hope listeners will join them in working the Maxer Method to identify limiting beliefs and change those thoughts to empowering beliefs.

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consultation to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who works with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

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In this episode, Suze and Jenni give personal examples of how to debunk irrational beliefs. First, they investigate the difference between a thought, a thought pattern or process, and a belief. 

Despite their slight aversion to journaling, they both found a payoff again when they did the most recent Maxer Method challenge. Suze was able to identify a pattern with her thinking when she dug deeper, identifying three particular irrational beliefs that were active for her in relation to her current life situation. 

Jenni’s insight was the correlation between intense emotions and irrational beliefs, noting that intense emotions triggered some irrational beliefs for her. Suze related that she found that different irrational beliefs had been triggered in the past under other circumstances when she had intense emotions. 

Suze and Jenni demonstrate how you can dispute these pesky beliefs by using the tool called Irrational Beliefs handout which you can download from their website at https://insightmaximizers.com/handouts. 

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consultation to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who work with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

Join Insight Maximizers’ Community:

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Suze and Jenni continue to focus on thinking, and how it is impacted by emotions. While a mild emotional reaction causes thinking to become distorted, an intense feeling will make thoughts irrational.

Suze describes the work that Albert Ellis PhD has done to identify 12 irrational beliefs, which Jenni and Suze have compiled for listeners in an easy-to-use handout. Please visit the Insight Maximizers' newly renovated website at insightmaximizers.com to download your free tool to see the full list of the 12 irrational beliefs as well as disputes for each one to help make an irrational belief more rational.

Once you have the handout, you’ll be ready to do this episode’s Maxer Method!

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who work with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

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While practicing the most recent Maxer Method, Jenni and Suze realized that distorted thinking is a large part of their conditioned self. It was a good piece of insight for them that connected the coaching and therapy worlds.

Suze worked heavily on jumping to conclusions, one of David Burns’ distorted thinking patterns. Jenni realized that she was thinking in should statements, despite not using the word should or ought. They both used skills from the handout insightmaximizers.com/handouts) that helped them change their thinking and in turn, what they were feeling!

They hope that everyone listening realizes that we all have distorted thinking, and it can be challenged and changed!

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who work with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

Join Insight Maximizers’ Community:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsightMaximizers

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There are many tools available to help us understand how our thinking impacts our emotions, how our body feels and the actions we take or don’t take. To continue our journey into our thinking, Suze discusses one too with Jenni, the 10 distorted thinking patterns identified by David Burns, MD.

This episode’s Maxer Method is more journaling, much to the chagrin of Jenni and Suze who remain journal resistant. At least this time the recommended amount of journaling is 3 days, not 5! 

Suze created a handout with the 10 distorted thinking patterns that can be downloaded at insightmaximizer.com/handouts. It will be useful to have the handout to learn the coping skills available for us once we identify the distortion we’re using. That’s the message Jenni and Suze want you to know; we all have distorted thinking, and we can all change those thoughts. 

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from the external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who work with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

Join Insight Maximizers’ Community:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsightMaximizers

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/insightmaximizers

Jenni and Suze identified differences between coaching and counseling to inform listeners. They reviewed the Authentic Self and Conditioned Self, which they were identifying in their journaling with the last Maxer Method.

Suze continues to struggle with journaling, though found this Maxer Method quite useful to gain insight and feel peaceful inside. Jenni was able to see her progress as she journaled for this episode after reviewing the journaling she did three weeks prior. In the end, they both really believe that journaling is helpful!

The Maxers Community Facebook group continues to grow! Consider joining this private group for fellow insight seekers to give and receive insights. Join us in changing how we do events. We’re shifting our focus from external things to preparing ourselves from within for handling whatever comes our way. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/524983982549427. 

Suze Gadol Anderson lives in Eugene, Oregon. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, practicing in Texas and Oregon. Request a free consult to work with Suze at www.authenticinsights.com. 

Jenni Hubby is a Certified Professional Coach with a team of coaches in Texas, who work with people all across the United States. To schedule a free consult for coaching, visit https://www.jhubconsulting.com/. 

Find previous episodes and more about Suze and Jenni at http://www.insightmaximizers.com.

Contact Jenni and Suze at Maxers@InsightMaximizers.com

Join Insight Maximizers’ Community:

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InsightMaximizers

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insightmaximizers/

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/insightmaximizers