Coaching practices for Externalise Worry

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

• The same handful of worries just cycle in my head on a loop, recurring because they never actually get pinned down
• A worry barges in mid-task and screams that it’s urgent, that I have to deal with it this second
• A worry pops up in the middle of something I’m trying to do and I feel like I have to deal with it right this second or I’ll lose it forever
• When I try to sort my worries in my head, the thinking just breeds more thinking and I lose track of what I’ve even covered
• The worrying never clocks out

Practices that may help

1. The Worry Log: Capturing and Categorizing Worries
   Write down each worry as it arises, then categorize it as solvable or hypothetical before the worry window.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
2. Note the worry and defer it
   When a worry arises off-schedule, jot it down and postpone it to the window — don’t engage now.
   Worry Postponement, Made Practical
3. Contain worry in a designated worry period
   Defer non-urgent worry to a fixed 20-minute window later in the day.
   The Worry Tree
4. Use written worry-tree sorting to externalise the loop
   Write each worry through the decision branches rather than running the tree in your head.
   The Worry Tree
5. Contain worry with a scheduled worry period
   Assign worry a 20-minute daily window — and redirect it there the rest of the day.
   Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD
6. Worry stimulus control: confine worry to a designated time
   Schedule a 20-minute daily "worry period" and postpone all worry outside it.
   Worry Exposure, Made Practical
7. Separate solvable worries from unsolvable ones
   Triage each worry into "act on it" or "let it go," and treat each kind differently.
   Worry Postponement, Made Practical
8. Identify the core fear beneath the worry chain
   Follow each worry downstream to find the primary feared outcome it is ultimately about.
   Worry Exposure, Made Practical
9. Productive Problem-Solving vs. Worry
   Distinguish solvable worries — which need a plan — from hypothetical ones — which need acceptance or defusion.
   Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry
10. Distinguish actionable from non-actionable worries
    Triage each worry: is there one thing you could actually do about it? If yes, plan it. If no, that's the exposure target.
    Worry Exposure, Made Practical

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