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The CBT of Avoidance

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The CBT of Avoidance
Why We Avoid Hard Conversations
6 MINThe CBT of Avoidance
What you'll learn
  • →Trace the CBT chain that keeps you stuck: thought ("it will go badly") → feeling (dread) → behavior (avoid) → outcome (nothing changes).
  • →Learn the single interrupt that breaks the chain at the thought stage.
  • →Replace the catastrophic prediction with a realistic one.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Write down your catastrophic prediction about the conversation. Now write three realistic alternative outcomes — including ones where it goes okay. Read all four. Notice which one you've been treating as certain.

Chapters

Jump to a moment.

  • 0:00The hook
  • 1:15The pattern
  • 2:45The interrupt
  • 4:30Practice scenario
  • 5:30The proof task
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Reflect

“What evidence do you actually have that this conversation will go the way you fear?”

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