Identify the anxious actions you’ll resist, and do the opposite. To get the most out of every stepping-toward-discomfort practice, it’s essential that you resist doing any anxious actions to lessen your anxious response. You’ll learn more about this later in the chapter and in chapter 7 (“Keeping Going”), where you’ll learn how “opposite action” can protect you from sliding back into your old pattern of avoidance (Linehan 1993; Allen, McHugh, and Barlow 2008; Moses and Barlow 2006).

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