Worry Window
This is a scheduled worry break. For the next few minutes, you have permission to worry about anything and everything. When the timer ends, you close the window and move on.
10:00
Time's up. You did it.
How do you feel?
This is a CBT exercise called a "worry window." It teaches your brain that
worry has a time and place, so it stops invading the rest of your day.
This is just one exercise. The Detox has five.
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