Coaching practices for Right Now I'm Not Just Feeling the Anxiety I Am the Anxiety It's Flooded the Whole of Me and There's No Me Left Standing Apart From it to Even Look at it I Need Just a Sliver of Space From This So I Can Be with it Instead of Being Swallowed by it

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• Right now I’m not just feeling the anxiety, I am the anxiety
• When the anxiety takes over it feels like it is me
• There’s this big formless dread sitting on me and I can’t even say what it is
• What I’m actually terrified of isn’t out there in the world
• My mind is racing off into every worst-case "what if" and I’m barely in the room anymore

Practices that may help

1. Unblend from a part to access Self
   Ask an activated part to step back enough so you can be with it from Self rather than as it.
   IFS Self Energy, Made Practical
2. Strengthen the observing self
   Notice that there is a "you" watching your thoughts — that witness is stable even when thoughts are not.
   Defusion from Anxious Thoughts
3. Name it to tame it (affect labeling)
   Put the emotion into words — "I’m feeling anxious" — to take some heat out of it.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
4. Add interoceptive rungs for bodily fear
   If you fear the physical sensations of anxiety itself, include exposures that deliberately induce them.
   The Fear Ladder: Graded Exposure Made Practical
5. The 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
   Name five things you see, four you hear, three you feel, two you smell, one you taste.
   The Anxiety Toolkit, Made Practical
6. Externalizing the Problem
   Separate the person from the problem by talking about it as if it exists outside them.
   Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You
7. Physical anchoring (feet, contact, pressure)
   Press your feet down and feel your contact with the chair or ground to anchor into the body.
   Grounding Techniques for Acute Distress
8. Divided attention — hold multiple sources at once
   Expand awareness to hold three or more sounds simultaneously without collapsing back to one.
   Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
9. Third-person emotion labeling for self-distancing
   Label your emotion using your own name: "Alex is feeling anxious" instead of "I am anxious."
   Name It to Tame It: Affect Labeling in Practice
10. Run toward the feeling
    Actively invite more of the anxiety rather than waiting nervously for it to pass.
    The DARE Response to Anxiety, Made Practical

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