Coaching practices for Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Mbct with Friends

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  • I can feel myself starting to slide
  • My weeks have quietly filled up with things that leave me hollow and emptied of the few that actually refill me
  • Good things technically happen in my day but none of them land
  • I live entirely in my head
  • Even when I “correct” my thinking it comes out in this cold, scolding voice

Practices that may help

  1. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
    MBCT is an 8-week group program developed by Segal, Williams, and Teasdale that combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy techniques to prevent depressive relapse. Multiple independent meta-analyses find it significantly reduces relapse risk in people with three or more prior depressive episodes — the evidence base is among the strongest for any mindfulness-based intervention.
  2. Action plans for low mood: if-then plans for the early warning signs
    Build a specific "if mood dips to X, I will do Y" plan before mood declines so it is ready when needed.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  3. Nourishing vs. depleting activities audit
    Map your weekly activities into those that restore energy and those that drain it, then intentionally shift the balance.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  4. Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
    Metacognitive therapy (MCT), developed by Adrian Wells, targets not the content of negative thoughts but the beliefs people hold about thinking itself — particularly the beliefs that worry and rumination are useful or uncontrollable. By changing these meta-level beliefs, MCT aims to stop the prolonged self-focused thinking styles that maintain anxiety and depression. A growing body of randomized controlled trials supports MCT as effective for GAD, PTSD, depression, and social anxiety, with some studies showing superiority to CBT.
  5. Pleasant events calendar: re-sensitizing to everyday positive experience
    Each day for a week, record one pleasant event and notice your sensory, emotional, and cognitive response to it.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  6. The body scan
    Systematically move attention through the body, noticing sensations without trying to change them.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  7. Apply self-compassion when restructuring gets harsh
    Use the "friend perspective" to find a tone that challenges distortions without adding shame.
    Cognitive Restructuring: The CBT Method for Changing Unhelpful Thoughts
  8. Decentering: "Thoughts are not facts"
    Treat thoughts as mental events to be observed, not truths about yourself or your situation.
    Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Made Practical
  9. Detached mindfulness: observe thoughts without engaging
    Let thoughts pass through awareness without following them, evaluating them, or acting on them.
    Metacognitive Therapy, Made Practical
  10. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Made Practical
    Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a structured, skills-based approach built on a simple idea: thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence each other, so changing what you think and do changes how you feel. CBT is among the most empirically supported psychotherapies for anxiety and depression across many randomized trials and meta-analyses. The skills below can be practiced on their own, though CBT for a diagnosed condition belongs with a qualified clinician.

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