Sometimes when people use avoidant coping it’s for the purposes of avoiding heavy duty emotions, however it’s also very common for people to use avoidant coping to avoid milder emotions like awkwardness. I very frequently see people choosing not to enact their personal values to avoid feeling temporarily awkward. The DIY Psychological Challenge for this [...]

Lots of people don’t do things they’d like to do for fear of rejection and the corresponding disappointment. If this is you, then you can break this pattern of avoidance by practicing exposing yourself to rejection. You might want to concentrate on – interpersonal rejection, or – other types of possible rejection whichever is the [...]

One of the super cool concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about being “willing” to feel whatever you are feeling right now. This might mean being willing to feel, for example: – panicky – embarrassed – a sense of longing – suicidal* – or, whatever you are feeling right now. Try to name [...]