Emotional Regulation - Coping Skills

Episode 2 of the Smart Self Growth podcast, hosted by Smart Self Growth, titled "Emotional Regulation - Coping Skills" was published on July 11, 2021 and runs 27 minutes.

July 11, 2021 ·27m · Smart Self Growth

Summary

Emotional Regulation Strategies: Maladaptive strategies: Expressive suppression, which is you restrain from controlling your expressions verbal or non-verbally. As we learn we realise that this is something that would build up inside of us and would eventually cause us some suffering and pain. We suppress it on an emotional level which leads us into the next one which is... Thought suppression - where you would have negative or intrusive thoughts that you would suppress. Suppressed emotions and or thoughts would also boil up and surface in situations where you are triggered. Cognitive avoidance - where you would distance yourself mentally from a situation or demands and then you have  Behavioural avoidance - where you would just disengage from the problem or the stressor and you haven’t implemented any efforts to cope with that situation, In other words, you're not active you're being passive and in that way, it also causes some deep problems You just completely ignore that there's any problem or obstacle. Rumination - which is an emotion or stressor that would be repeating so much that it really starts to become worse and worse.  A good example of that would be when you maybe argued with someone or someone said something to you. After a while you start thinking of many different things you or the other person should have could have said or done and the thought just repeats itself over and over. You could start worrying about it. Positive adaptive strategies and this is associated with greater well-being. Problem-solving and taking action where you take a Direct approach and an active effort to solve the problem… Seeking social support - would be when you would ask for support from others in a social environment. Now, this is going to be difficult during these times we have the COVID 19 or coronavirus outbreak, so it would be advisable that you do want to reach out to someone to do it over Skype. You may not be right next to that person and being able to feel that social vibe going on when you are face to face with someone else.  But it's better than nothing and a way to engage. You also want to engage with your loved ones that you currently stuck with within your home.  Acceptance - would be recognising the problem and also realising that it is real and allowing yourself to experience the negative feelings and emotions or effects from that problem and not trying to just avoid it. Notice it's the complete opposite of what you would usually do if you avoid it. Emotional processing - would be taking active attempts to acknowledge or explore and also understand your emotional experience once again the first thing that comes to mind with this type of strategy would be to meditate because that's beautiful in a journey that you can take and you can really follow your emotions around and try and determine where they are routed from  Cognitive reappraisal - would be to mentally change the initial response of the stressors to alter your emotion and the consequences so you would look at it in a broader context and try to see it more in a positive light. That could maybe be a difficult one. https://positivepsychology.com/emotion-regulation/ https://study.com/academy/lesson/emotion-regulation-definition-theory-strategies.html https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/general/what-is-emotional-regulation/

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