https://www.selahjtaysong.com/dreadless-start-where-you-are/ Selah J. Tay-Song: Author, Editor, Educator Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.selahjtaysong.com/dreadless-start-where-you-are/#comment-7689 Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:06:23 +0000 http://www.selahjtaysong.com/?p=1235#comment-7689 […] it would be easy to defeat. I had become a champion avoider, as you’ll see in the next post: Dreadless: Start Where You Are. Changing my avoidance behavior meant standing and facing all of the other obstacles at […]

]]> https://www.selahjtaysong.com/dreadless-start-where-you-are/#comment-7688 Sun, 10 Sep 2017 21:04:41 +0000 http://www.selahjtaysong.com/?p=1235#comment-7688 […] In the last exercise, you pinpointed a starting place, a safe spot to start confronting the thing that you are avoiding. Pick a time and place where you can dedicate yourself to the activity. As you do it, ask the question (or better yet, have your supporter asking it) “Where am I on the emotional scale of 1 to 10?”  If you find yourself above 5, stop and do some deep breathing in order to calm down. Try again until you can successfully repeat the activity ten times (not necessarily one after the other, it can be across the span of days) without going over a 5 on the anxiety scale. Once you can do this, proceed to the next step on your list, and repeat the process. […]

]]> https://www.selahjtaysong.com/dreadless-start-where-you-are/#comment-2462 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 19:32:17 +0000 http://www.selahjtaysong.com/?p=1235#comment-2462 […] Start Where You Are […]

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