Imagery Rescripting Cci: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices

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Practices that may help

1. Imagery rescripting for schema memories
   Revisit a difficult childhood memory in imagination and rewrite it so the child’s needs are met.
   Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs
2. Use imagery to re-engage with avoided experiences
   Revisit a distressing memory in concrete imagery rather than abstract analysis.
   Rumination-Focused CBT, Made Practical
3. Compassionate Imagery: The Compassionate Image and Safe Place
   Develop a vivid compassionate figure in imagination whose care you can access during distress.
   Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
4. Use concrete sensory detail, not abstract description
   The details that trigger imagery are the ones that produce transportation — vague language doesn’t.
   Storytelling for Persuasion, Made Practical
5. Know that CPT-C (cognitive only) skips the trauma narrative
   A cognitive-only version of CPT omits the written trauma account and may be more tolerable for some people.
   Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD
6. See external events from the citadel view
   From the inner citadel, events are data for judgment — not commands that must dictate your state.
   The Inner Citadel
7. Give abstract ideas a concrete image
   Invent a vivid mental picture for ideas that have no natural visual.
   Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together
8. Cognitive and Somatic Interweaves
   When processing stalls, a brief therapist-supplied statement or question can restart the chain.
   EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
9. Add sensory channels beyond vision
   Build auditory, tactile, and proprioceptive detail into your imagery — not just what you see.
   Mental Rehearsal and Imagery, Made Practical
10. Cut redundant words when the visual already says it
    Do not narrate a self-explanatory diagram word for word — it overloads, not reinforces.
    Dual Coding: Learn With Words and Pictures Together

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

• There’s one specific scene from when I was small that I can still feel in my body, and part of me wishes I could step back into that moment and do for that kid what nobody did→
• There’s a painful scene I keep going over in my head, but always as a dry summary of what it meant→
• When everything’s falling apart I have nobody in my head to turn to→
• My storytelling stays at the level of "a significant challenge during a difficult period," and it just slides past people without leaving a mark→
• I want to work on this, but the thought of having to write out or relive every detail of what happened is exactly what stops me cold→

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