Coaching practices for I Kept it P Meaning

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

• I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
• I tell my kid "good job" all day and it doesn’t seem to change anything
• Every idea I come up with, I shoot down as unrealistic before it can go anywhere, so I never escape the sensible little box
• The raw panic has actually eased, but underneath it these convictions are still lodged in me
• I disappear into the screen for hours and surface having completely forgotten what any of it is for

Practices that may help

1. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
   Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
2. Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block
   Pu (朴, "uncarved block") is a central image in Laozi’s Tao Te Ching representing a state of original simplicity — potential uncluttered by excess conditioning, opinion, and accumulated complexity. As a practice, pu means deliberately returning to essentials: stripping away unnecessary complexity in decisions, possessions, commitments, and inner speech to restore natural responsiveness.
3. Use descriptive praise instead of generic approval
   Tell the child exactly what they did right so they know what to repeat.
   Triple P Parenting (Matthew Sanders)
4. Provocation (PO): make a deliberately absurd statement to escape the pattern
   Prefix an impossible or absurd idea with "PO" to signal it is a provocation, not a proposal — then follow it to see what it unlocks.
   Lateral Thinking, Made Practical
5. Peg System Mnemonics, Made Practical
   The peg system links numbers (or abstract items) to vivid, pre-memorized "peg" images, then fuses new information to those images through bizarre mental pictures. Evidence for the method is primarily mechanistic and practitioner-reported — direct RCT data are limited, but the underlying memory principles (elaborative encoding, dual coding) are well supported.
6. Process cognitions after an exposure session
   After each imaginal exposure, discuss what came up — the stuck meanings and beliefs — not just the distress level.
   Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Principles, Practices, and the Evidence
7. Value-object anchoring
   Keep a physical object associated with your deepest purpose visible in your workspace.
   Purpose Anchors: Keeping Meaning Accessible Day to Day
8. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), developed by Patricia Resick, treats PTSD primarily by identifying and challenging "stuck points" — distorted or overgeneralized beliefs about safety, trust, control, intimacy, and self-worth that the trauma produced. Multiple large randomized trials show CPT is among the most effective available treatments for PTSD, comparable to Prolonged Exposure. The core concepts and some worksheets are publicly available; the full protocol benefits significantly from a CPT-trained therapist.
9. Use symbolic objects as tangible continuing bonds
   Keep meaningful objects that represent the person and use them consciously, not compulsively.
   Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical
10. Capture what resonates — not everything
    Save notes, highlights, and ideas only when they genuinely spark something — not out of obligation.
    Building a Second Brain (BASB), Made Practical

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