Emotion Regulation Module
This module is about learning to understand and balance your emotions.
What is Emotion Regulation?
This is a reaction to a triggering event.
What is treat physical illness?
This means doing something that helps you feel confident, capable, and in control.
What is building mastery?
This skill means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing to help break out of an ineffective emotion and create a new emotion.
What is Opposite to Emotion/Opposite Action?
This is one reason that people have emotions.
Motivation, Communication, Signals/Information, Understanding Others/Ourselves
This is created by the way we thinking about our reactions to triggering events.
What are secondary emotions?
The E in PLEASE stands for this, meaning fuel your body to have enough energy for the day.
What is balanced Eating?
You can use this skill to overcome barriers in order to accomplish a task or goal if something is getting in the way of acting.
This means bottling up, ignoring or rejecting your emotions.
What is stuffing?
Saying "I feel depressed" instead of "I am depressed" is an example of this Emotions Basic.
What is "You are not your emotions"
This occurs between the primary emotion and secondary emotion in response to a triggering event.
What is a thought about the primary emotion?
The A in PLEASE stands for this, and spending more time with sober friends is an example of this.
What is Avoid mood altering drugs?
This skill is about being mindful of and appreciating your efforts or work toward a goal.
What is Give Myself Credit?
This means holding on to emotions and trying to keep them around.
What is sticking?
It is more effective to think of emotions as this, rather than good/bad or right/wrong.
What is comfortable/uncomfortable, enjoyable/difficult, etc
Body sensations, thoughts, communication (verbal and nonverbal), and action urges/actions are all areas to look for clues of these.
What is your emotions?
The S in PLEASE stands for this, and keeping naps to a minimum is an example.
What is balanced Sleep?
This is something you can do right now to feel good, and watching a funny video is an example of this.
What is a short-term positive experience?
What is Feel Your Feelings?
Understanding that emotions eventually pass, and that we can use skills to tolerate them and create new emotions, is an example of this Emotion Basic.
What is "Emotions do not last forever"
Tense muscles, thoughts "I'm going crazy," fidgeting, and an urge to skip school are clues of this emotion.
What is anxiety?
The second E in PLEASE stands for this, and helping with yardwork is one example of this.
What is balanced Exercise?
This requires a lot of planning and is accomplished through many smaller steps. Learning to speak Spanish is an example of this.
What is a long-term positive experience?
"People are surprised when they find out I'm depressed or anxious" is an example of this
Emotional Stuffing