Why Feelings?
Feeling Your Feelings
Experience Emotions Skillfully
Increase Emotional Resilience
100

True or False: "Emotions are always valid," means that emotions always represent facts about the world

False

100

Acknowledging that our emotions, thoughts, and actions are caused and therefore are understandable

What is Self-Validation?

100

True or False: The goal of managing distressing thoughts is to counter, combat, or block each thought

False

100

Rehearsing a plan so that you are prepared to cope skillfully with emotional situations.

What is Cope Ahead?

200

True or False: neurobiological differences can make it harder to regulate emotions

True

200

“I think I’m just too sensitive sometimes.”

”I don’t have a reason to feel sad right now.”

“I need to just get over it.”

What are examples of self-invalidation?

200

Is this thought absolutely true? Is it helpful for me to think about? Where did this thought come from? What might someone else say about this thought?

What is Check the Facts?

200

After I (current habit), I will (new action step).

What is Habit Stacking?

300

Avoid, appease, or attack

What are action urges for shame?

300

The idea that being able to label our emotions lessens the intensity of those emotions and reduces our distress.

What is "name it to tame it?"

300

The skill we use when acting on our emotion urge is not effective.

What is Act Intentionally?

300

The skill in PLEASE that can reduce physical pain, improve executive functioning, increase self-esteem, and lower and prevent stress.

What is Exercise?

400

If others don’t approve of my emotions, I shouldn’t feel the way I do.

Emotions make me illogical, irrational, or dramatic.

Letting others know that I am feeling down is a weakness.

What are Emotion Myths?

400

Pain x Resistance =

What is the equation for suffering?

400

Rehearsing a plan so that you are prepared to cope skillfully with emotional situations.

What is Cope Ahead?

400

True or False: Carbohydrates allow amino acids from protein to reach the brain & make serotonin

True

500

Motivate & organize us for action, communicate to & influence others, and give us important information.

What do emotions do for us?

500

Use alternative descriptions, an emotion wheel, music or art, or recall a time your felt similar

What are tips for identifying emotions?

500

The skill we use when acting on our emotion urge is effective.

What is Problem-Solving?

500

Audit your notification settings, drive to your next destination in silence, wear noise-canceling headphones, take a social media sabbatical

What are examples of Sensory Rest?

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