•1 Your inner responses to your inner responses are the first point for your intervention.
•2 Your problem with your problem is invariably the best place to start your problem-solving and coping interventions.
•3 Stepping back to gain perspective on a problem requires that you do not step back with an attitude or judgment about the problem.
•4 Detaching from a problem requires that you stop identifying with it, personalizing it, or seeing yourself at the center of that problem’s story.
•5 Adults are responsible for what they maintain inside themselves because feeding internal events with emotions, narratives, thoughts, and time is a choice whenever you are conscious and not psychotic.