The Drawbacks to Change

Dialectics, radical acceptance and cognitive restructuring means embracing the positive and negative aspects of a situation. What are what's scary or anxiety provoking about change physically? When we're talking about addiction, one of the drawbacks to change physically is the withdrawal symptoms. And then you do the same thing for staying the same: What are the benefits to staying the same? By going through all four of these quadrants, by breaking it down very granularly, you can help people identify their motivations for change.