Coaching practices for How to Deal with My Emotions Better
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I try to keep the emotion out and stay reasonable, but it never actually stays out
- When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
- I feel the jealousy or the hurt and then immediately pile on a second layer of "I shouldn’t feel this, a mature person wouldn’t"
- My days have flattened into nothing but obligations and dread, and there’s no good stuff banked anywhere
- When a wave of anger or panic hits, it feels like it’ll swallow me whole if I don’t do something right now
Practices that may help
- Bring feelings into the conversation deliberately
Name the emotions instead of leaking them — unspoken feelings don’t leave, they distort.
Difficult Conversations, Made Practical - Mindfulness of the current emotion
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical - Give yourself permission to feel
Drop the judgment about whether you should or shouldn’t feel a certain way — the emotion is already there.
Radical Honesty About Emotions, Made Practical - Accumulate positive experiences
Deliberately do things that generate positive emotion — building a reservoir that distress draws from.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical - Riding the emotion wave with anicca awareness
When a strong emotion hits, track it through its full arc — notice it peak and fall without fleeing or amplifying.
Anicca: Working Practically with Impermanence - Expand your feelings vocabulary
Deliberately learn and use a wider range of emotion words than "good" and "bad".
Emotional Granularity: Precision as a Regulation Skill - N — Nurture with self-compassion
Offer the part that is suffering what it most needs — care, acknowledgment, reassurance — as you would a dear friend.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - Map your emotional landscape
Identify which situations reliably produce which emotions for you — before you need to regulate them.
Situation Selection, Made Practical - Name the emotions the situation will likely produce
Predict which feelings will show up and at what intensity — so they are not surprises when they arrive.
Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations - O — Observe: Notice What Is Actually Happening
After the stop, observe the situation, your emotions, and your urges — without judgment and without acting on them.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments
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Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
Mindfulness of the current emotion
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Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- How To Deal With Your Emotions Better
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- How To Handle Emotions Biblically
After the stop, observe the situation, your emotions, and your urges — without judgment and without acting on them.
O — Observe: Notice What Is Actually Happening
- How To Deal With Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- How To Deal With Emotions Productively
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
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