CBT Shorts: Can’t Break My Soul - When Dating Meets Grind Culture

The CBT Dive

In this special Shorts episode, we revisit some highlights from a previous season that dive deep into personal journeys and the challenges of dating apps. Our guest, Terence, believes that everyone is on their unique path. Yet, he struggles with feelings of resentment when judged by people with impressive job titles and comfortable bank accounts.

Join host Rahim Thawer and Terence as they invoke the wisdom of Beyonce to reframe Terence’s feelings of inadequacy. They explore how capitalism and grind culture can be especially tough for those managing trauma and adult ADHD. Watch as Rahim guides Terence through a thought record, helping him reshape his self-perception and view of potential Tinder matches.

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The CBT Dive is a video podcast that brings therapy skills to the real world. Each episode welcomes a new guest who wants to explore a challenging situation using the most common cognitive behavioural therapy tool: the thought record.
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Rahim Thawer is a queer, racialized social worker and psychotherapist based in Toronto. He's created The CBT Dive podcast to support folks who want to learn how to use a thought record and to demystify what therapy can look like.
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บท

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Situation: Feeling financially inadequate when swiping on dating apps (00:03:12)

3. Feelings experienced in the situation (00:04:15)

4. Behaviors (00:08:26)

5. Automatic Thoughts (00:09:20)

6. Identifying the Hot Thought (00:21:29)

7. Limitations of one thought record (00:23:17)

8. Evidence that supports the Hot Thought (00:23:46)

9. Evidence that does not support the Hot Thought (00:26:29)

10. Alternative thoughts based on evidence (00:29:04)

11. Feelings after meditating on alternative thoughts (00:32:54)

12. Check-in and Outro (00:34:19)