A rather upset individual complained to me that “emotional regulation is for children” among other words. Of course, many parents may know about emotional regulation for children especially if they give them “time outs” (I don’t mean in a punishing way), or have their infants trained to fall asleep on their own, particularly after waking…
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Emotions that are hard to feel
If you have ever procrastinated from doing homework or some task at home or work, you might not have sensed any bad feelings. Instead, you might have found a distraction to take your attention away from the thing you are avoiding. But somewhere in your brain there may be a broken neural connection that makes…
Dating Anxiety
As an author writing under the pen name “Wing Girl Kim” nearly nine years ago, I met a lot of men who struggled with nervousness. They would be with their dates and not know what to say or how to behave. They had difficulty being themselves in front of women. But eventually, they would get…
Therapy and Sensory Emotional Regulation
The beauty of sensory emotional regulation is that it can help turn a bad day at therapy into a healing session. But the therapist must know how to take a client through the process effectively in order for the client to have relief. I decided to become a psychotherapist because I want to offer the…
The Depth of Depression
With every disruptive emotion comes a set of physical sensations in the body. Take nervousness. A nervous person might have sweaty palms, a heightened heart beat, or “butterflies” in the stomach. The sensations can be different for everyone. But some sensations may be more difficult to notice. A client who struggled with depression had difficulty…
Overcoming Panic Attacks
Before becoming certified as an emotional regulation specialist, the practitioner must successfully resolve an emotional difficulty him- or herself. In San Francisco, Cedric Bertelli, Director of Tipi USA, gave free trainings at his office every other Monday. It took attending two of them before I was able to resolve a disruptive emotion. With PTSD, anxiety…