Coaching practices for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Act During a Big Change

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I know what I want to be doing, but I keep waiting until I feel ready or motivated, and ready never shows up
  • 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
  • There’s something I genuinely could change, but it scares me, so I’ve quietly filed it under "out of my hands" to let myself off the hook
  • The moment I get near the thing I’m supposed to do, the dread shows up and I back off

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. Committed action
    Take concrete steps toward your values, again and again, even when discomfort shows up.
    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
    Radical acceptance, taught by Tara Brach and rooted in dialectical behavior therapy, means fully acknowledging reality as it is — including pain you cannot change — instead of fighting it. The point is not approval or giving up; it is to stop the extra suffering that resistance adds on top of the original pain. Acceptance-based skills are well-established in clinical practice (DBT, ACT); RAIN is a practitioner framework for applying them.
  6. 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
  7. Identify and take the courageous action that is actually available
    After acceptance, courage means acting on what genuinely is within your power, even when it is uncomfortable.
    The Serenity Prayer as a Practice Framework
  8. Practice willingness to carry discomfort
    Treat the presence of discomfort as neutral data, not a stop sign.
    Committed Action, Made Practical
  9. Turning the mind toward acceptance
    Actively choose acceptance — not once, but each time the mind rebels — treating it as a repeated practice, not a state.
    Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
  10. Apply the experiential processes early, behavioral ones later
    Use consciousness-raising and emotional arousal early; counter-conditioning and stimulus control after you commit.
    The Transtheoretical Model of Change, Made Practical

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