Are You Sitting Comfortably?

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In this story Piglet, Pooh & Eeyore illustrate the underlying principal of CBT; what we think and do affects the way we feel.

What do you mean?

Sometimes to change the way we feel, we need to do something differently or examen the way we think.

Not Convinced …?

Piglet and his friends explain it so well!

Pooh Explains how CBT Therapy Raises Mood

Eeyone Felt Sad.

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's stick house.

Inside the house was Eeyore. "Hello Eeyore," said Pooh."Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet "said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice. "We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore’s Feelings, Thoughts & Behaviours

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All.

Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Change in Behaviour & so in Feeling!

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?" "We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are." "Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard

Illustration by Bob T Panda