Reclaim Your Life: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 7 Weeks Reclaim Your Life: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in 7 Weeks Paperback Audible Audiobook Kindle

DISCOVER WEEK-TO-WEEK STRATEGIES INSIDE:

Now that you've had some practice distancing yourself from your thoughts, we're going to work on making room for unpleasant feelings, emotions, physical sensations, memories, images, and urges, instead of trying to suppress for this. Avoidance of feelings, just like fusion to thoughts, often leads to avoidance of valued ACTions. So, week 2 is going to focus on the core process of acceptance to help you get unstuck.

On to week 3! The core process for this week is present moment, which in many ways resembles mindfulness. In ACT, several of the skills contain elements of mindfulness, including the two we have already covered--defusion and acceptance. This week we'll build upon the skills you have learned and practiced over the last two weeks to include mindfulness as a way to live in the present moment.

In week 4, we are going to cover ACT process of the observer self, or the self-as-context, as it is sometimes referred to. This process underlies the skills we have already covered, including defusion, acceptance, and the present moment, all of which involve a kind of observing or stepping back from your experience.