Coaching practices for I Only Get Through Hard Moments by Clutching My Little Crutches Water Bottle Phone in Hand Sitting Near the Exit and Whenever I Make it Through Fine I Credit the Prop Never Myself So Deep Down I Still Believe I'd Fall Apart Without Them
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I only get through hard moments by clutching my little crutches
- I can only handle the scary situation if I’ve got my little crutch
- 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 get through the hard situations, but only with my little crutches
Practices that may help
- Run exposures without safety behaviors
Do induction exercises while deliberately leaving out the coping props you normally rely on.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - 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 - 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 - 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 - Dropping Safety Behaviors Within Experiments
Remove the subtle avoidance strategies (safety behaviors) that prevent experiments from genuinely testing the belief.
Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World - Build supportive connection
Invest in a few reliable relationships — connection is the single strongest protective factor.
Building Resilience, Made Practical - Identify the strengths the hardship revealed
Name capacities you discovered in yourself only because the situation demanded them.
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity - Run a disconfirmation experiment without the safety behavior
Enter the feared situation without the safety behavior and observe what actually happens.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - Domain 3 — Personal strength
Surviving what you thought you couldn’t can leave a durable sense of "I am stronger than I knew."
Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical - Recognize and reinvest in deepened relationships
Notice which relationships grew closer through the hardship, and deliberately invest back in them.
Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity
Related concerns
- Fade Anxiety Crutches
Safety behaviors (a phone, a companion, a pill) reduce distress in the moment but prevent the learning that exposure is meant to produce.
Gradually drop safety behaviors
- When Behavioral Experiments Safety Behaviors And Experiments
Do induction exercises while deliberately leaving out the coping props you normally rely on.
Run exposures without safety behaviors
- When Exposure Therapy Drop Safety Behaviors
Identify and drop the subtle actions that reduce anxiety but prevent learning you don’t need them.
Eliminate safety behaviors
- When Scaffolding Learning Fading Support
Plan from the start how support will be withdrawn, and execute that plan deliberately.
Systematically fade the scaffold as competence grows
- When The Fear Ladder 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.
- Drop Safety Behaviors Exposure
Safety behaviors are actions people take to prevent feared outcomes during anxious situations — sitting to avoid fainting, avoiding eye contact to seem less socially threatening, checking repeatedly to prevent disaster. Paul Salkovskis identified them as a central maintenance mechanism: they prevent the person from learning that the feared outcome would not have happened anyway. Fading them — systematically reducing their use — is an evidence-supported component of CBT for anxiety disorders, with the strongest evidence in panic and social anxiety.
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