Your Mental Health Inventory
Substances and Coping
What you'll learn
- →Inventory your coping strategies — including the ones you'd rather not name: alcohol, weed, food, screens, shopping, work.
- →Understand that coping isn't bad — but unconscious coping is.
- →Name what you're actually avoiding feeling when you reach for each one.
Proof task
Don't just watch. Do.
Write a list of the things you reach for when you don't want to feel something. Don't judge the list. Next to each one, write the feeling you were avoiding the last time you used it. The point isn't to quit. The point is to know.
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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
“Which of your coping strategies do you defend the hardest — and what does the defensiveness tell you?”