It sounds like you have a best-outcome from engaging in this self-help content, and I can see what you're saying. Any pause or rumination can mitigate a feeling, I suppose, and perhaps the questions do this under ideal circumstances.

To me, the bigger cultural issue is around how such techniques enjoy their strongest growth in tandem with the rise of neoliberalism. It's a bad historical moment to tell the internet that thoughts/feelings about Donald Trump are all in our heads.