Coaching practices for I've Got All These Little Rules That Keep Me Okay Sit Near the Exit Keep Water on Me Never Go Without My Phone and They Feel Like What Saves Me but Somewhere I Know I Can't Go Anywhere Without Them Anymore

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• I’ve got all these little rules that keep me okay
• I can get through the scary thing now, but only with my little crutches
• I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
• I can only handle the scary situation if I’ve got my little crutch
• I only get through hard moments by clutching my little crutches

Practices that may help

1. Drop the safety behaviors
   Let go of the small avoidances and crutches you use to feel "safe" from anxiety.
   The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical
2. Eliminate safety behaviors
   Identify and drop the subtle actions that reduce anxiety but prevent learning you don’t need them.
   Exposure Therapy: Facing Fears to Shrink Them
3. Map your safety-behavior inventory
   List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
4. Gradually drop safety behaviors
   Safety behaviors (a phone, a companion, a pill) reduce distress in the moment but prevent the learning that exposure is meant to produce.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
5. Run exposures without safety behaviors
   Do induction exercises while deliberately leaving out the coping props you normally rely on.
   Interoceptive Exposure for Panic
6. Set explicit values-based rules for each technology you keep
   For every digital tool you reintroduce, write down exactly which value it serves and under what conditions.
   Attention Reclaiming: Digital Minimalism in Practice
7. Plan for the common obstacles before they arrive
   Identify your three most likely reasons for abandoning the station and write a specific "if–then" response for each.
   The Phone Foyer Method
8. Fade reliance on a support person
   Gradually enter feared situations with decreasing support from a person who has been a source of safety.
   Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical
9. The just-in-case test
   If you can replace an item in 20 minutes for $20, you can let it go.
   Minimalism, Made Practical
10. Identify and reduce safety behaviors
    Notice the things you do to prevent catastrophe during panic — and experiment with dropping them.
    The Clark Panic Model, Made Practical

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