Map Out Your Survival Strategies
Survival strategies are the behaviors, reactions, and patterns you developed to protect yourself when something overwhelmed you. They were not random. They were intelligent responses to stress.
Identify your primary survival strategies
Notice what happens in your body, emotions, and thinking
Bring order to the behaviors you may want to change
The goal is clarity, not judgment.
Kindness
Thoughts /
Behaviors
Behaviors
Feelings /
Reactions
Reactions
Physical
Sensations
Sensations
What I Want To Change
1
Drinking
2
Yelling
3
Shutting Down