Emotional Regulation Acronym: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Self-regulation
Manage disruptive impulses and moods so you respond by choice rather than reflex.
Emotional Intelligence, Made Practical - Situation selection
Choose or avoid situations based on their likely emotional consequences — regulation before the event.
Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical - Use the safe place for in-the-moment regulation
When distress escalates, briefly access the image to interrupt the escalation cycle before deciding what to do.
EMDR Safe Place, Made Practical - Teach the four zones and what each one feels like
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
Zones of Regulation (Leah Kuypers) - Simple affect label: say the emotion word aloud or in writing
When emotionally activated, say or write one clear emotion word — "fear," "anger," "grief" — before doing anything else.
Name It to Tame It: Affect Labeling in Practice - DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
DBT’s emotion regulation module teaches you to understand what emotions are and why they fire, reduce vulnerability to emotional overwhelm, and change unwanted emotional states through specific skills. DBT as a whole has strong randomized-trial support; the individual skills are established clinical practice rather than separately trialed units. - Replace suppression with upstream reappraisal
Shift to reappraisal — changing how you think about the event before it generates the emotion you would otherwise suppress.
The Costs of Expressive Suppression, Made Practical - Observe the emotion without feeding it
When a strong emotion hits, watch it without adding the story that keeps it going.
The 90-Second Rule, Made Practical - Map your emotional landscape
Identify which situations reliably produce which emotions for you — before you need to regulate them.
Situation Selection, Made Practical - Reduce emotional vulnerability (PLEASE)
Lower your baseline reactivity by protecting sleep, eating, exercise, and physical health.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- Something sets me off and I’m already reacting before I’ve even thought
- I keep saying yes to the same gatherings and commitments that reliably leave me drained and rattled, then trying to white-knuckle my way through the feelings once I’m there
- I can feel it starting
- When my child melts down and I ask what’s wrong, they genuinely can’t tell me
- Something just hit me and I’m flooded
Related concerns
- Emotional Regulation Process
Choose or avoid situations based on their likely emotional consequences — regulation before the event.
Situation selection
- App For Emotional Regulation
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
Teach the four zones and what each one feels like
- Apps For Emotional Regulation
Each child needs their own set of tools matched to each zone.
Build each child’s personalized regulation toolbox
- Emotional Reactivity And Emotion Regulation
Choose or avoid situations based on their likely emotional consequences — regulation before the event.
- Emotional Regulation Apps
Give children a shared map of internal states before asking them to regulate.
- Emotional Regulation Technique
DBT’s emotion regulation module teaches you to understand what emotions are and why they fire, reduce vulnerability to emotional overwhelm, and change unwanted emotional states through specific skills. DBT as a whole has strong randomized-trial support; the individual skills are established clinical practice rather than separately trialed units.
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