One Rung at a Time

12 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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About this session

One Rung at a Time is a guided audio session from Salūs Rooms — part of the CBT collection.

Salūs Rooms is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS, Android and web — hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial.