I swam laps today. It was a good workout and helped me to relax a lot. Running psyches me up, but swimming relaxes me. It was the perfect workout for today. I've been jumpy lately. My anxiety has been high and I've been having a lot of negative thoughts about myself that I need to reframe. What is reframing. Well it's when you catch a thought and reframe it to a more accurate statement. Say I yell at my kids and feel bad later for yelling at them. I might have the thought, "I'm a bad parent." a healthy reframe would be, "I feel like a bad parent for yelling at my kids." Not much of a change right. Well actually it is a big change. It takes the thought and shifts it from a cognitive distortion to an accurate statement. My wonderful therapist in Oceanside, CA, Deborah Bermann, taught me how to catch the distorted thoughts and reframe them. I'm so glad she taught me how to look at things from a healthier perspective. I'm not perfect at it, but I don't have to be.