Coaching practices for Delay Anxiety Checking

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• Part of me already knows the checking is overkill, but I keep doing it anyway, and I’ve never once let myself just not
• The urge to text and ask, or just look it up, hits like it can’t wait
• The urge to check, to google it, to ask someone "are we okay" hits like a command I can’t not obey
• Even once the worst of it passes, I can’t get back into the room
• I refresh the numbers

Practices that may help

1. Run uncertainty experiments
   Deliberately leave small things uncertain and observe what actually happens.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
2. Postpone rather than eliminate reassurance-seeking
   When you feel the urge to check or ask, wait 20 minutes first — and usually the urge passes.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
3. Apply defusion to reassurance-seeking urges
   When you feel the urge to check or seek reassurance, defuse the urge itself, not just the content.
   Defusion from Anxious Thoughts
4. Engage with the present moment
   Once the edge comes off, redirect attention fully into an activity or your surroundings.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
5. Schedule metric checks instead of monitoring continuously
   Check dashboards, stats, and analytics on a fixed schedule — not whenever anxiety spikes.
   The Not-To-Do List
6. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
7. Run toward the feeling
   Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
8. Use grounding before anxiety peaks, not after
   Start the technique at the first sign of anxiety — not once the wave is overwhelming.
   The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique
9. Fade reassurance-seeking
   Gradually reduce how often you seek reassurance from others that the feared thing won't happen.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
10. The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
    Name five things you see, four you hear, three you feel, two you smell, one you taste.
    The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical

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