Coaching practices for How to Overcome Overwhelming Emotions
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- When a big feeling crashes over me it’s like I become it
- I’m stuck at one of two extremes with hard feelings
- I spend so much energy trying to push down or get rid of what I feel, and it just comes back stronger
- Every time I try to face the hard stuff I go straight at the worst of it to just get it over with, and it floods me
- I keep trying to shove this feeling down or talk myself out of it, and the harder I fight it the worse it gets
Practices that may help
- 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 - Mindful awareness of suffering
Hold painful feelings in balanced awareness — neither suppressing them nor being swept away by them.
Self-Compassion, Made Practical - Acceptance (willingness)
Make room for unwanted feelings instead of struggling against them, so they stop running the show.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Made Practical - Titration (work in tiny, tolerable doses)
Approach a hard sensation or memory in small sips, not all at once, so you stay regulated.
Somatic Experiencing, Honestly Explained - A — Allow the experience to be as it is
Let what is present be here, without pushing it away, numbing it, or elaborating it.
RAIN Meditation: Tara Brach’s Four-Step Practice - 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 - ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
Distress Tolerance 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 - TIPP: Rapid Physiological De-escalation for Intense Distress
Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to bring crisis-level emotion down quickly.
The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments - Opposite action
When an emotion doesn’t fit the facts or is unhelpful, act opposite to its urge — fully and wholeheartedly.
DBT Emotion Regulation Skills, Made Practical
Related concerns
- How To Deal With Overwhelming Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
Mindfulness of the current emotion
- How To Cope With Overwhelming Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- How To Deal With Overwhelming Negative Emotions
Deliberately do things that generate positive emotion — building a reservoir that distress draws from.
Accumulate positive experiences
- How To Cope With Overwhelm Emotions And Be Okay
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
- What To Do When Emotions Are Overwhelming
Use Activities, Contributing, Comparisons, Emotions, Pushing away, Thoughts, and Sensations to redirect attention during a crisis.
ACCEPTS — structured distraction from crisis
- What To Do When You Are Overwhelmed With Emotions
Observe the emotion as a wave passing through — without judging it, feeding it, or running from it.
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