Reframing
Looking at the same situation from a different angle and finding it means something else.
Origin
The clinical name is 'cognitive restructuring' — the core technique of [[cognitive-behavioral-therapy]]. The looser term 'reframing' came from family therapists Paul Watzlawick and Virginia Satir in the 1970s and was generalized in NLP and coaching. The move: identify the automatic interpretation, generate alternative interpretations consistent with the same facts, pick a more useful one. 'I failed' becomes 'I tried something hard'; 'they're attacking me' becomes 'they're scared.'
Modern usage
Among the most-used therapy verbs outside the clinic. 'Reframe it as…' is standard coaching, management, and journaling vocabulary. The risk — that aggressive reframing slides into [[toxic-positivity]] — is itself now part of the discourse.
In the wild
She reframed the layoff as 'forced sabbatical' and was on a beach by Tuesday.— common usage
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