Have you ever felt hopeless, like you are forever caught in a quagmire of mental spins that lead you nowhere, except to unhappiness and more hopelessness? Do you find yourself acquiring more and more labels for the various things wrong with you and continuously revisiting traumatic aspects of your past? Life doesn't have to be that way. Regardless of your state in life and what other people have naively told you about your limited options, you have the power to change. If you are courageous enough to harness that beautiful organ between your ears, you can have a satisfying life. Yes, it will be helpful to look at your past in order to determine the nature of your beliefs, but this will be a temporary springboard to forming new beliefs, new behaviors, and a whole new mindset that has the potential for tremendous personal freedom. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CT) is a rather technical term for learning profound personal responsibility, looking at the reality and truth of your existence, and mustering up the bravery to make significant changes, even if those changes might be contrary to everything that you believed before.