Emotion Coping Skills

Emotion Coping Skills:
Emotions are intense. Emotions are beautiful. Emotions are what make us feel alive. But emotions can also be scary, overwhelming, painful, exhausting, and sometimes even seem unbearable. When we’re feeling highly emotional, the thinking part of our brain tends to shut down. Whether we’re being swept away in Love or carried away in Anger, emotions can make us all act a little stupid. But that doesn’t mean emotions are bad; feeling joy and sadness is what connects us to others, feeling stress and pride help us be productive, feeling fear can help us take action to be safe.
Emotions serve as powerful motivation to take action and engage with life. But often those emotions can be overwhelming. When emotions run high, it’s essential to know how to calm yourself down, start thinking clearly, and make good choices with your actions.

Every section of this course teaches strategies to cope with emotions, by using your senses, practicing relaxation, or using temporary distraction as a tool. I would call these a “Back door” approach, turning on your calming response without directly addressing emotions.
This section is going to focus on short term Emotional Coping skills, where we will discuss how to face and feel emotions in a healthy way. Allowing yourself to express your emotions without frantically trying to avoid them lets you work through them slowly and carefully, wholeheartedly.

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