Since switching from in-person sessions to televideo my therapist has changed the format of my therapy from trauma work and CBT to (pretty much) only CBT.

One of the aspects of CBT includes (as most of you probably know) affirmations. Every session my therapist reads a list of affirmations to me. Some of them are

"I am safe and sound. All is well."
"There is a great reason this is unfolding before me now."
"I muster up more hope and courage from deep inside me."
"I choose to find hopeful and optimistic ways to look at this."

And so on.

I want to incorporate the affirmations into my life as much as possible. The problem is that whenever I read them or hear them I think of scenes such as

(POSSIBLE TRIGGERS!!!)




In a concentration camp people lined up for the gas chamber.

Someone has been abducted by a serial killer and is facing her murder.

And so on.

I mean...say a person is holding her child by the hand and is in line to enter the gas chamber. Is she really going to say to herself, "There is a great reason this is unfolding before me now"?

Am I totally missing something? I would love to hear feedback from others on this.