Episode 15: The disconfirming emotional experience

The disconfirming emotional experience is the very heart of the
therapeutic process. It is the necessary and sufficient condition
for significant personal change. In essence, a disconfirming
emotional experience is when a person has the experience of
passing through a feared situation only to emerge unscathed on
the other side. With repetition, this contributes to the
development of a felt sense that things will kinda be okay, which
will force an update of outdated mental models.