Coaching practices for Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Act When Burned Out

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  • I spend so much energy trying to push down or get rid of what I feel, and it just comes back stronger
  • I know what I want to be doing, but I keep waiting until I feel ready or motivated, and ready never shows up
  • I’m burning all my energy raging at the parts of this I can’t budge, which leaves nothing for the parts I actually could move
  • I’ve decided I just am this
  • I think I’ve finally made my peace with it and ten minutes later I’m back to railing against it, and I keep reading that slide-back as failing at acceptance instead of just having to choose it again.

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. 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
  3. Committed action
    Take concrete steps toward your values, again and again, even when discomfort shows up.
    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical
  4. Accept first, then act on what can change
    Use acceptance to see clearly, then move on the parts of the situation you can actually influence.
    Radical Acceptance, Made Practical
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Radical acceptance in a crisis
    Fully acknowledge that this is happening right now — stopping the war with reality to free energy for getting through.
    Distress Tolerance Skills, Made Practical
  8. 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.
  9. 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
  10. Match coping mode to what is actually controllable
    Use problem-focused coping when you can change the situation; emotion-focused coping when you cannot.
    Stress Inoculation Training

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