One Rung at a Time

11 min

Best for: avoidance and facing feared situations

We all have a thing we walk the long way round to avoid, and avoidance only lets that fear grow taller in the empty space we leave behind. Drawing on graded exposure, a core CBT technique, this session helps you name what you have been sidestepping and break it into a ladder of small, achievable steps. You will practise identifying the very first rung, the smallest move that is still genuinely yours to make, and learn how facing it shrinks the fear instead of feeding it. By the end you will have one concrete, doable step rather than a wall of dread.

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Eleanor Vance
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Eleanor Vance
Warm, low, unhurried

Warm and unhurried, with a low steady ease, the slow exhale at the end of a long day.

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About this session

One Rung at a Time is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the CBT collection, narrated by Eleanor Vance.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.