Workbook
This is the workbook you use when a client keeps circling the same problem, insists they “want to change,” and still end up doing the exact opposite of what they say they want. This gives you the real tools to help clients uncover the invisible mental potholes blocking progress. These are the gains, the hidden “benefits,” the emotional shortcuts, and the avoidance patterns that keep even smart, motivated people stuck on repeat.
Inside you get the full practitioner guide for identifying primary and secondary gains, the complete stem sentence system for uncovering hidden fears, the expanded client Fear of Change workbook, the procrastination breakdown, identity conflict worksheets, future pacing drills, fear stacking, cost analysis, gut intuition training, avoidance mapping, identity shift grids, and a full set of deeper practitioner-only prompts. This is the toolbox that helps you identify what the mind thinks it is protecting and how to shift it without breaking rapport or triggering defensiveness.
What You'll Get
Core Practitioner Guide
Understanding gains and blocks
How to work with the gut system
How to frame questions without triggering defenses
Why pretending unlocks truth
How to prep the mind for emotional access
Expanded Client Fear of Change Workbook
What stuck patterns protect
Comfort zone explanation
Fear of success and fear of failure breakdown
Primary and secondary gain examples
Why the mind chooses familiar suffering
Stem Sentence System
Light stem sentence prompts
Deep practitioner level stems
Gut based response activation
Identity and expectation stems
Avoidance specific stems
Role and self perception stems
Client Tools and Insight Worksheets
Gut trust exercises
Fear signals cheat sheet
Future pacing “Day After” drill
Fear stacking breakdown
Cost of staying stuck inventory
Action and anchor pages
Hidden map analysis
Cost reality check
Meet the need pattern shift sheet
Identity shift grid
Procrastination To Action Mini Workbook
Why the brain mislabels tasks as threats
How fake productivity creates safety
Structured avoidance patterns
Emotional resistance and short term relief cycles
Practitioner Extras
How to build client safety using pretending
How to guide clients through intuitive processing
How to use pacing, reflection, and emotional priming
How to print mini prompts for home use
How to avoid leading or planting blocks
How to preserve rapport while uncovering fear
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Who Is This For?
Practitioners who want deeper tools beyond basic questioning
Coaches who need a way to bypass client overthinking
Therapists who want clean access to subconscious patterns
Anyone working with fear based stuckness
Practitioners who want to avoid accusation, assumption, or pressure
Professionals who know their client is blocked but cannot see the root
Helpers who want a repeatable method for revealing internal resistance
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Why This Works
The mind protects through patterns. It uses fear, avoidance, roles, identity stories, overwhelm, and emotional shortcuts to keep people in familiar territory. This workbook works because it maps those protections in a way that feels safe, non confrontational, and client led. Instead of pushing the client toward change, it helps the client see what their mind is doing and why. Insight creates safety. Safety creates movement.
Clients access intuition faster
Pretending bypasses defensiveness
Stem sentences expose hidden fears
Future pacing tests emotional truth
Fear stacking reveals the root fear beneath the fear
Cost analysis overrides the brain’s familiarity bias
Identity grids loosen the grip of old roles
Gut work clarifies truth versus panic
The practitioner guide keeps rapport intact through the entire process
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How Soon Can I Use It?!
Instant download after checkout
Open on any device immediately
Print worksheets right away
Print stem sentences for sessions right now
Send clients home with selected prompts
Use the practitioner guide immediately
Apply the gut trust drill in your next session
Start identifying gains in minutes
FAQs
Does it teach me how to find secondary gains without harming rapport?
Yes. The entire practitioner section teaches how to do that safely.
Can clients do this at home?
Yes, but the deeper stem work is better done with practitioner support.
Can I use this more than once?
Yes. Many prompts are designed to be revisited as you evolve.
Is this digital or printed?
It is a digital PDF that you can print or use on any device.
Does this include intuitive or gut training?
Yes. There is a full section on how to access and interpret the gut signal.
Does it include procrastination tools?
Yes. The Procrastination To Action workbook is included.
Will this help clients who overthink everything?
Yes. Stems, pretending, and gut based prompts bypass their over= analysis.
