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☕🤖Tutorial: Build Your AI Therapist - A Mental Clarity System for Founders

☕🤖Tutorial: Build Your AI Therapist - A Mental Clarity System for Founders

PLUS: Use ChatGPT to unload stress, reframe self-doubt, and regain momentum, in less than 30 minutes....

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🧠For Founders Who Are Tired, Stuck, or Just Carrying Too Much

Hey AI Breakers 👋

Let’s be real for a moment: Entrepreneurship is not just about managing time, it’s about managing energy, self-doubt and invisible mental loads.

You’re making decisions alone, second-guessing launches, juggling personal life and team fires, all while trying to “stay inspired.”

But here’s the thing: Burnout rarely comes from working too much.
It often comes from carrying too much, alone, for too long — with no space to process it.

This tutorial gives you that space.
Using ChatGPT as an AI therapist, we’ll walk through a guided 4-step framework inspired by therapy, executive coaching, and founder journaling.

Let’s build your mental clarity engine.


🎯 The Goal

By the end of this, you’ll have:

  • Identified hidden emotional bottlenecks

  • Reframed limiting beliefs with structure

  • Modeled your inner “conflict voices”

  • Turned overwhelm into clarity and next steps


🪜 Step-by-Step System


1. The Cognitive Dump (with Emotional Tagging)

This is not just venting.
You’ll tag each thought with an emotion and ChatGPT will organize them into a map of your mind.

Prompt 1:
“I want to do a structured cognitive-emotional dump. I’ll share raw thoughts, one per line. For each, identify the dominant emotion (e.g. frustration, fear, guilt, overwhelm) and group them by theme. Then help me explore what beliefs or unmet needs might be driving each group.”

✅ This gives you categorized clarity, instead of one giant mess of thoughts.


2. The Limiting Belief Reframe Engine

Now we go deeper than “positive thinking.”
We ask GPT to debunk your inner critic using evidence and coaching frameworks.

Prompt 2:
“Based on the belief patterns identified, please analyze them using this model:

  • Belief: (What am I telling myself?)

  • Evidence For / Evidence Against

  • More Empowering Belief (neutral or positive)

  • New Micro-Action aligned with that belief

Apply this to at least 2–3 core beliefs that are emotionally charged or recurring in my thinking.”

✅ This mimics how a trained cognitive-behavioral coach would work with thought distortion.


3. Inner Dialogue Simulation (IFS-Inspired)

Here’s where it gets interesting.
Ask ChatGPT to simulate a conversation between two conflicting parts of yourself.

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