- When you feel worry, what actions can you take? If no actions, it’s unproductive worry
- Accept reality.
- Recognize you’re
- Core issues. Core beliefs.
- Possible failures are temporary events. What do my emotions tell me?
- Climb a ladder to higher meaning
- Is there some future you hope for? What actions can you take today? What’s realistic.
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- rumination: what is the action you’d take? If there’s no action, you’re just worrying
- Rejecting a perfect solution
Mindfulness - monitor your thoughts: gaining distance. - Describe what’s in front of you. - Judgment. How are you judging your thought? - Take yourself out of it: don’t be in the center of your thoughts. - Disappear to see reality: imagine you do not exist. What do you see?
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- worry → an
- Adults who worry had parents worried. No safe place to go.
- Acting as parent to your parent.
- Dismissed emotions. Grew up thinking
- Insecure attachments.
- Shame → who you are or what you are needs to be hidden.
Belief:
- Worry solves problems.
- You believe the worry is
- Worry helps avoid thinking of worst ourcome
- worry Keeps it in your head
- You’re not anxious when you’re worried.
- Worry gives illusion of control
- Worry means you’re responsible. They think
- Worry reduces uncertainty.
- Worry to control thoughts and feelings.
- Worry motivated you.
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