Physical Sensations
Physical sensations we often attribute to feeling guilty (name three)
stomach drop, nausea, tight chest, hollow feeling, face flushing/hot, restlessness, headache
When engaging in this type of emotion, I respond adaptatively to what is happening?
Primary emotion (share an example of responding to a primary emotion)
What are the three parts of the three-component model?
Thoughts, Physical sensations, Behaviors/Urges
Emotions are your body's way of saying what?
Something is going on here that needs attention
An exercise to help us arrive at our core beliefs?
The Downward Arrow
This emotion can often create feelings of slowness, heaviness in the limbs, and pressure behind the eyes
Sadness
This emotion is focused on keeping things fair and defending your rights/values
Anger
Recognizing the three components can help us identify our (fill in the blank)?
Emotions (Why is it helpful to identify the 3 components?)
The goal of treatment is to eliminate uncomfortable emotions
False (explain why)
The R in the ARC stands for what and is made up of what three components?
Response (Thoughts, behaviors/urges, physical sensations)
A physiological reaction to perceived threats triggered by the sympathetic nervous system (hint: there are four possible reactions).
Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn
Prepares us to cope with future events, we enter a stage of alertness/preparedness
Anxiety (share what can happen when we experience an overwhelming amount of anxiety)
What does EDA stand for?
Eating Disorder symptoms, Depression symptoms, and Anxiety symptoms
ALL of our emotions, even the ones we’ve labeled as “bad” or “off limits” have the potential to be good and adaptive
True (explain)
Jane shares, "I feel so guilty about being angry". What kind of emotion is guilty functioning as?
A Secondary emotion
What physical sensations does anger often cause? Name at least three
Racing heart, tense jaw, feeling hot, sweaty, tension in head
Watch a clip and share how the emotion was functioning within the clip
TBD
Why can it be helpful to utilize the EDA?
Track growth, develop emotional awareness, identify impactful stressors that may need processing
My emotions are the problem, because they are too intense
False
The practice of reframing our automatic thoughts to consider alternative possibilities?
Appraisals (share two recent automatic thoughts and two ways to appraise the thoughts)
Why it is important that we experience physical discomfort/sensations associate with our emotions?
Allows us to identify emotions we may be feeling, builds distress tolerance, requires us to connect with our body, queues us in to if we are feeling pain
an emotion for survival that serves us by leading us to avoid things that can be harmful to our health and well-being. Usually triggered through our five senses.
Disgust (share an example of a time you experienced it)
Share two in the moment three-point checks with the group
Share
In general, people believe that their memories are accurate, but our current emotional state has a much stronger influence on our memories than we think.
True
A judgement about our initial emotion can often to lead what type of behavior?
Avoidance and EDBs (name 3 specific ways you have avoided your primary emotion over the past week)