Name it to tame it

When a child living with ADHD is overwhelmed, the brain's alarm system takes over. Thinking, reasoning and problem solving go offline. This episode looks at one of the most well researched emotional regulation strategies available and why it works: naming the feeling. Science shows that putting a word to an emotion actually calms the brain down. Not eventually, in the moment. This episode covers how to build this skill before the hard moments arrive and how the Be Everything You Are! organiser can support that practice daily.Be Everything You Are! organiserSCIENCE REFERENCESLieberman, M. D., et al. (2007). Putting feelings into words: Affect labelling disrupts amygdala activity in response to affective stimuli. Psychological Science, 18(5), 421 to 428.Siegel, D. J. (2012). The Whole Brain Child. Delacorte Press.Torre, J. B., & Lieberman, M. D. (2018). Putting feelings into words: Affect labelling as implicit emotion regulation. Emotion Review, 10(2), 116 to 124.