Coaching practices for I've Got All These Little Things I Do to Get Through Anxious Moments Gripping the Rail Sitting Near the Door Over Preparing That Feel So Sensible I've Never Once Questioned Them or Even Noticed How Many There Are
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I’ve got all these little things I do to get through anxious moments
- I’ve got all these little rules that keep me okay
- My mind is racing off into every worst-case "what if" and I’m barely in the room anymore
- I only get through hard moments by clutching my little crutches
- My thoughts are racing in circles and I can’t think my way out of the spiral
Practices that may help
- Map your safety-behavior inventory
List every action you take to prevent feared outcomes in anxiety-provoking situations.
Safety Behavior Fading, 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 - 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 - Run exposures without safety behaviors
Do induction exercises while deliberately leaving out the coping props you normally rely on.
Interoceptive Exposure for Panic - Run the full 5-4-3-2-1 sequence
Work through all five senses in order: 5 things seen, 4 heard, 3 touched, 2 smelled, 1 tasted.
The 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding Technique - The 5-4-3-2-1 senses exercise
Name 5 things you see, 4 you hear, 3 you feel, 2 you smell, 1 you taste, to anchor in the present.
Grounding Techniques for Acute Distress - Run uncertainty experiments
Deliberately leave small things uncertain and observe what actually happens.
Accepting Uncertainty: The Core Skill in CBT for GAD - Reduce covert mental safety behaviors
Identify and fade the mental acts — rehearsing, planning, distraction — that serve the same function as overt avoidance.
Safety Behavior Fading, Made Practical - The Worry Log: Capturing and Categorizing Worries
Write down each worry as it arises, then categorize it as solvable or hypothetical before the worry window.
Worry Time: Containing Anxiety With Scheduled Worry - 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
Related concerns
- Anxiety Avoidance List
List all the situations you avoid because of anxiety, from least to most frightening, then work up the list.
Build an avoidance hierarchy and work through it systematically
- Anxiety Crutches
Let go of the small avoidances and crutches you use to feel "safe" from anxiety.
Drop the safety behaviors
- Dropping Safety Behaviors Anxiety
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.
- 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
- How To Get Over Anxiety Of Driving
Let go of the small avoidances and crutches you use to feel "safe" from anxiety.
- Safety Behavior Fading For My Teenager
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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