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Steven C Hayes- Getting Out of You Mind

The One You Feed

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The Importance of Experiential Avoidance

There is this desire to escape from what we're feeling versus being willing to embrace it. When you avoid dealing with your problem it only grows. People have this idea if I can get the short-term benefit of avoidance that I've actually somehow lessened the role of that event in my life and I have strengthened it. That is really a feed the wolf situation isn't it? It's not just that these avoidance strategies haven't worked it's that they can't workavoidance only strengthens the importance and the role of whatever you are avoiding.

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