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Exposure: Doing the Thing You Avoid

6 minEndureFree episodeCBT
Exposure: Doing the Thing You Avoid
Anxiety Skills
6 MINExposure: Doing the Thing You Avoid
What you'll learn
  • →Understand that avoidance strengthens anxiety — every time you escape, the fear gets bigger.
  • →Learn the principle of gradual exposure: small steps, repeated, build tolerance over time.
  • →Build a hierarchy of fears, smallest to largest, and pick the first step.
Proof task

Don't just watch. Do.

Pick one thing you've been avoiding because it makes you anxious. List 5 smaller versions of doing that thing — versions that scare you a little but not a lot. Pick the smallest. Do it this week. That's gradual exposure.

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 have you been avoiding for so long that it has become bigger than it actually is?”

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