Coaching practices for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Act as a Caregiver
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- When everything’s falling apart I have nobody in my head to turn to
- I spend so much energy trying to push down or get rid of what I feel, and it just comes back stronger
- I’ve decided I just am this
- I keep pouring myself into caring for everyone around me while running on empty, and instead of feeling connected it just leaves me hollowed out
- I’m hardly ever actually here
Practices that may help
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions. - Compassionate Imagery: The Compassionate Image and Safe Place
Develop a vivid compassionate figure in imagination whose care you can access during distress.
Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic - Acceptance (willingness)
Make room for unwanted feelings instead of struggling against them, so they stop running the show.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), developed by Paul Gilbert, targets shame and self-criticism by training a compassionate inner voice to replace the punitive self-critic. It draws on evolutionary psychology and affective neuroscience — specifically, the finding that different emotional systems (threat, drive, soothing) have distinct neurobiological profiles. A growing body of RCT evidence supports CFT for shame-based difficulties, self-criticism, and depression, though the evidence base is smaller than for CBT. - Self-as-context (the observing self)
Notice the steady "you" that observes thoughts and feelings without being defined by them.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Tend to yourself before tending to others
Sustainable tend-and-befriend requires that the caregiver’s own basic needs are met — otherwise helping depletes rather than regulates.
Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical - Contact with the present moment
Bring flexible attention to here and now, instead of being lost in past or future.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - RAIN — Nurture (offer what is needed)
Give the hurting part the care it actually needs — a phrase, a hand on the heart, a kind tone.
Radical Acceptance, Made Practical - Committed Action, Made Practical
Committed action — a core ACT process developed by Steven Hayes — means taking concrete, repeated steps toward what you value even while discomfort is present, rather than waiting for the feeling of readiness. It is the behavioral spine of ACT, which has substantial randomized-trial support across anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other conditions. - Use caretaking as a mutual stress-regulation activity
Helping someone else under stress activates the same oxytocin circuitry that helps you.
Tend-and-Befriend, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Act At Work
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Act In A New Job
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Act When Burned Out
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Act When Starting Out
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
- Acceptance And Commitment Therapy Act With My Team
ACT teaches you to stop fighting difficult thoughts and feelings and instead take committed action toward what you value, even while they are present. Its core processes — defusion, acceptance, contact with values, and committed action — have a substantial and growing base of randomized-trial support across many conditions.
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