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The Emotional Shower: A Functional Metaphor for Emotional Regulation

An ACT-in-Context Reflection for Clinicians

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Using Metaphor to Shift Function:

A Functional Contextualist, RFT, and ACT-Informed Perspective

Motivational Flexibility (Values)

A Retirement Party & A Tombstone

The Retirement Party & Tombstone Exercises are powerful tools for self-reflection and values clarification. Give it a try this week, and let it inform your work and the work you do with clients.

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Eating an Apple

When clients feel stuck comparing their current circumstances to the past, this metaphor gently guides them toward experiencing the present as it is, rather than resisting it by wishing it were something else.

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Give Your Mind a Name

This technique helps clients create distance from their internal voice and respond to their thoughts with curiosity and flexibility rather than entanglement.

Exercises

RIACT

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The Emotional Shower: A Functional Metaphor for Emotional Regulation

Using Metaphor to Shift Function:

A Retirement Party & A Tombstone

Eating an Apple

Give Your Mind a Name

Pushing Away Paper

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