RESET - DON'T REGRET
Reset - Don't Regret is a practical Maggie's Coaching guide for the moments when a choice, reaction or coping behaviour has left you wishing things had gone differently.
Rather than allowing regret to become a shame spiral, the full PDF helps readers slow the moment down, understand what happened, take responsibility where appropriate, repair what can be repaired and build a more useful plan for next time.
Inside the guide is a five-part RESET process: Recognise, Examine, Settle, Evaluate and Try Again. It explores the difference between regret, guilt and shame, why regulation can be important before trying to fix a situation, and how curiosity can create more useful learning than repeatedly attacking yourself.
There is practical guidance for repairing relationships, including an apology and repair framework, as well as sections on coping behaviours, alcohol and substance-related regret, neurodivergence, impulsivity, overload, rejection sensitivity and external strategies that can reduce repeated difficulties.
The practical pages include a full reset worksheet, a 24-hour reset plan, a control-versus-no-control exercise and weekly reflection prompts. The guide also explains when regret, repeated behaviours or emotional distress may need professional or specialist support.
The final section contains a personal message from Maggie, a Carl Rogers person-centred quotation and perspective, recommended books, further support options, clinical notes and references.
The central message is that a reset is not pretending nothing happened. It is taking what you can learn, repairing what is yours to repair and allowing the next choice to be different.
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Until next time, give yourself space to breathe.
