Coaching practices for Emotion Coaching John Gottman After a Loss

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• The second my kid starts melting down I feel my own chest tighten and my patience snap, and I react from that heat
• Everyone keeps telling me to move on and get over the loss, but the grief is huge and it won’t go
• I only ever try this stuff when my kid is already in full meltdown, and that’s exactly when it comes out stiff and scripted and falls apart
• Something I built my life around has ended
• When my child gets upset my whole reflex is to make it stop as fast as possible

Practices that may help

1. Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
   Emotion coaching is John Gottman’s term for the parenting style in which adults treat a child’s negative emotions as opportunities to connect and teach rather than problems to suppress. Longitudinal research from Gottman’s lab found that children of emotion-coaching parents showed better emotional regulation, fewer behavioral problems, and stronger academic performance compared to children whose emotions were dismissed or punished.
2. Become aware of your own emotional reactions first
   A parent who is flooded by their child’s distress cannot coach it — self-awareness is the prerequisite.
   Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
3. Treating grief as a form of gratitude
   When something ends and you feel grief, recognise that the grief is proportional to the love — and let it be both.
   Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
4. Practice emotion coaching during low-stakes moments
   Build the skill in small moments so it’s available in the big ones.
   Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
5. Reframing loss as transformation
   When something ends or is lost, practise asking what it is becoming rather than only mourning what it was.
   Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
6. Treat the emotional moment as a teaching opportunity
   When your child is upset, slow down instead of speeding toward resolution.
   Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
7. Identify your natural grieving style and adjust for it
   Know whether you tend toward more loss or more restoration orientation — and compensate accordingly.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
8. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
   Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
9. Listen empathically and validate the feeling
   Reflect the emotion you see accurately before you do anything else.
   Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)
10. Construct a coherent narrative of the loss
    Tell the full story of the loss — who the person was, what happened, and what life is now.
    Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical

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