The Tug of War Metaphor in ACT
MidAmerican Psychological Institute
Pickslyde Consulting
Key Points
- How many times do you struggle with parts of the human condition that you don’t allow yourself to embrace?
- Drop the rope.
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Transcript
Anxiety is frightening. It’s downright scary. Sometimes, it seems right to look at anxiety as if it were a monster.
And this monster in you has this rope that binds you both together. And the monster is pulling hard on that rope. You perceive that the monster is trying to pull you into the chasm of doom and that’s not where you want to be. You want to pull the monster into the chasm of doom so you don’t ever have to see it again. So you pull really hard on that rope but this anxiety monster is strong.
