PLAYING-IT-SAFE MOVES
- Accepting negative stories about myself and questioning my abilities
- Assuming responsibility of important matters & others’ well-being
- Criticizing, judging, & attacking yourself
- Disengaging and using safety crutches
- Doing things right, perfect & precisely: perfectionism
- Overanalyzing, doubting, & indecisiveness
- Procrastinating, postponing and delaying
- Searching for certainty, predictability, & re-assurance
- Taking my thoughts too seriously
- Thinking repetitively about future and past painful feelings, events and failures