Tag: experiential therapy
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Step 3: Staying Committed — Building Strength Through Patience and Trust
After I learned to delay my thoughts and stay present, I reached a point where progress depended on one thing: commitment.This step wasn’t about discovering a new technique — it was about staying faithful to what I had already started. I realized that recovery doesn’t happen in a straight line.Some days I felt strong, and…
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Step 2: Staying Present — How Focusing on the Moment Helped Me Stay Free from Obsessive Thoughts
After I learned to delay my obsessive thoughts, the next challenge was to keep my mind from falling back into them.That’s where the second step of my recovery began — learning to stay present in the moment. I realized that whenever I got caught in the past or the future, my mind became the perfect…
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Step 1: The Delaying Technique — How I Practiced It Day by Day
When I first realized something in my mind wasn’t working right, I truly didn’t know what to do. My thoughts came and went like endless waves, and in the middle of that storm I understood one thing: I still had things to do in life. There was still a spark of life inside me —…