You can take the turn around further. Getting stuck on My thinking isn't working consider replacing names
For example, I am angry at my mother because she down't listen. My mother should listen to me...

Can become My mother is angry at me because I don't listen to her...[pause here, ask, could that be true?] I should listen to my mother. [pause again and ask could that be true].. and if it's true is it as true or truer than the original statement.

Alex