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How to Be Bold When Your Brain Screams "No!"

Being courageous is a learned behavior that involves recognizing our fears and managing them, ultimately fostering personal growth through bold actions.

Mindfulness

The Mystery of Your "Sixth Sense"

Conscious awareness and emotional regulation lead to neural networks that grow, prune, and strengthen based on conscious focus and repeated practice, resulting in improved clarity.

Mindfulness

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Parenting

Grandparents Are Sharing Their Brutally Honest Opinions About Modern Parenting, And It's Very Insightful

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Mindfulness

DBT Wise Mind is the Best Skill for Highly Sensitive People - Tiny Buddha

Parenting

Walking on Eggshells: When You're Afraid of Your Own Child's Meltdowns

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Parenting

Hilary Swank says she has a 'more fitting' term to describe her twins entering their terrible twos

A Dad Lists 5 Ways You Can Make Your Child's Tantrums Worse

Parents can mitigate tantrums by allowing children to express their emotions rather than rushing to fix them.

I Got A Shoutlet & It's Helped Me Stop Yelling At My Kids (Mostly)

Parenting often leads to feelings of frustration and burnout, despite preparation and tools available.

Utilizing creative solutions like the Shoutlet can help manage emotional outbursts effectively.

Parenting

Grandparents Are Sharing Their Brutally Honest Opinions About Modern Parenting, And It's Very Insightful

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DBT Wise Mind is the Best Skill for Highly Sensitive People - Tiny Buddha

Walking on Eggshells: When You're Afraid of Your Own Child's Meltdowns

Meltdowns are signals of overwhelm, not defiance or control.

Parents of neurodivergent children often navigate a high-stress environment filled with unpredictability.

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Parenting

Hilary Swank says she has a 'more fitting' term to describe her twins entering their terrible twos

Parenting

A Dad Lists 5 Ways You Can Make Your Child's Tantrums Worse

Parenting

I Got A Shoutlet & It's Helped Me Stop Yelling At My Kids (Mostly)

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Emotional vs. Rational Mind: Which One Is Running You?

Emotional regulation is vital for maintaining psychological stability, as it involves monitoring our state of mind and understanding our emotional triggers.

Mental health

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Relationships

Loving Someone With ADHD

Relationships

Scattered Love: Why ADHD Can Make Relationships So Hard

Mental health

You May Have ADHD If You Do Any Of These Things In Your Relationships, Experts Say

New Insights Into Childhood ADHD

ADHD involves challenges beyond attention, including action regulation and persistence.

ADHD requires more repetitions for behavior automation and novelty for sustained effort.

Interventions should enhance knowledge application, persistence, and emotional regulation.

Relationships

Loving Someone With ADHD

Relationships

Scattered Love: Why ADHD Can Make Relationships So Hard

Mental health

You May Have ADHD If You Do Any Of These Things In Your Relationships, Experts Say

New Insights Into Childhood ADHD

ADHD involves challenges beyond attention, including action regulation and persistence.

ADHD requires more repetitions for behavior automation and novelty for sustained effort.

Interventions should enhance knowledge application, persistence, and emotional regulation.

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What Do Your Recurring Dreams Have to Tell You?

Two women dreamed of a majestic mountain, each with different interpretations: one viewed it as the approach of death, while the other saw it as a symbol of her growing children.

Relationships

Poetry as Medicine: Using Verse to Support BIPOC Mental Health

Poetry therapy is a culturally responsive approach to processing emotions and histories, particularly for BIPOC individuals.

Struggling to Cope? Try This 60-Second Fix

How one quick reframe turned 'I'm a terrible parent' into a moment of healing and connection. Melissa, a working mom, snapped at her daughter but then applied self-compassion.

Mindfulness

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Relationships

Porn and Food Share More Than You Think

The 3-Word Solution to Stop Complaining

Complaining releases frustration but increases it; perspective shift is more beneficial.

Relationships

Porn and Food Share More Than You Think

The 3-Word Solution to Stop Complaining

Complaining releases frustration but increases it; perspective shift is more beneficial.

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Horses 'mane' inspiration for new generation of social robots

Therapeutic robots should be active partners rather than passive companions, mirroring emotional responses like therapy horses to improve user well-being.

When the Past Haunts the Present: Trauma and Relationships

Childhood trauma significantly affects emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships in adulthood.

How Our Trauma History Can Affect Our Friendships

Childhood emotional neglect and trauma greatly affect adult friendships, leading to trust issues, fear of abandonment, and emotional withdrawal.

When the Past Haunts the Present: Trauma and Relationships

Childhood trauma significantly affects emotional regulation and interpersonal relationships in adulthood.

How Our Trauma History Can Affect Our Friendships

Childhood emotional neglect and trauma greatly affect adult friendships, leading to trust issues, fear of abandonment, and emotional withdrawal.

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Trauma-Sensitive Yoga May Help Military Sexual PTSD

Trauma-sensitive yoga enhances emotional regulation in veterans and helps address chronic pain and alienation from PTSD.

Authenticity Can Help Relationship Burnout

Burnout in couples is linked to struggles with emotional regulation and authenticity.

#anger-management

Parenting

Flashpoints of Resentment and Anger

Mindfulness

A Personal Method for Emotional Regulation

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Easy Forms of Effective Anger Regulation

Regulating perceived vulnerability is more effective than traditional anger management, which often leads to chronic resentment.

Parenting

Flashpoints of Resentment and Anger

Mindfulness

A Personal Method for Emotional Regulation

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Easy Forms of Effective Anger Regulation

Regulating perceived vulnerability is more effective than traditional anger management, which often leads to chronic resentment.

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Staying Steady: Managing Emotions During Fertility Struggles

Emotional regulation is essential for managing feelings during fertility struggles.

Building emotional confidence requires patience and practice.

Techniques like box breathing can aid emotional steadiness.

#conflict-resolution

Mindfulness

One Visualization. Ten Seconds. You're Back in Control

Mental health

What to Do When Every Political Conversation Exhausts You

Your Brain on Conflict

Conflict escalates cognitive rigidity by activating the brain's salience system.

Techniques like deep breathing can help manage emotional responses during conflict.

Viewing conflict as a challenge rather than a threat alters engagement.

Building conflict resilience enhances relationships and overall well-being.

One Visualization. Ten Seconds. You're Back in Control

The amygdala can hijack our thoughts during threats; observing instead can grant emotional control and prevent spiraling reactions.

What to Do When Every Political Conversation Exhausts You

Listening is a powerful tool for navigating political conversations, promoting mutual recognition.

Your nervous system can trigger survival responses in conflict situations, affecting emotional state.

Genuine listening is essential and more effective than listening with the intent to persuade.

Your Brain on Conflict

Conflict escalates cognitive rigidity by activating the brain's salience system.

Techniques like deep breathing can help manage emotional responses during conflict.

Viewing conflict as a challenge rather than a threat alters engagement.

Building conflict resilience enhances relationships and overall well-being.

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What Can In-House Lawyers Learn From Elite Athletes About Peak Performance? - Above the Law

Athletes train their minds for focus, emotional regulation, resilience. In-house lawyers can similarly benefit from mental performance training to enhance their high-stakes decision-making.

Mindfulness

Unwelcome Guests and the Gifts They Bring

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) effectively addresses the complexities of trauma-related emotions, offering structured interventions that promote regulation and acceptance in clients.

Mental health

Remote teams

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Scientists discover particular working pattern can cause brain damage

Overworking beyond 52 hours per week harms cognitive and emotional functions, altering brain structure, according to a study.

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Why Some Kids Won't Talk

Children exhibiting explosive behavior may have disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), which requires understanding and tailored approaches rather than traditional communication methods.

The Popularity of True Crime: Why We Can't Stop

True crime media attracts women by fulfilling psychological needs and offering control over fears and risks associated with violence.

5 Words That Literally Rewire Anxious Young Minds

Don't wait for anxiety to pass; address it proactively.

CBT is essential for changing brain patterns related to anxiety.

Parent involvement in emotional regulation can support therapy goals.

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From Code to Charisma: Emotional Mastery for Tech Leaders

Influence is crucial in the tech industry for guiding decisions, aligning teams, and driving innovation.

Emotional regulation is essential for maintaining a balanced and rational mindset.

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Bite, lick or nibble? What your ice cream style says about you

How you eat ice cream reflects your personality traits.

Why Online Gaming Is the New Playground for Kids

Online gaming serves as a modern playground for children, promoting social interaction and learning.

Focus on building digital resilience in children during middle childhood.

Music

Before Words, There Was Rhythm: Music as a Neural Language

Music is a powerful biological tool that influences our emotions and bodily responses before we engage intellectually.

How to Increase Your Child's Happiness

A stable and safe environment is key to a child's long-term happiness.

Is a Regular Dose of Fear Therapeutic?

Controlled exposure to fear can improve emotional resilience and regulation.

Time-Outs for Couples

Time-outs can significantly enhance relationships by facilitating emotional regulation during conflicts.

They require a commitment to reconvene for effective resolution of issues.

Both partners should equalize the ability to initiate time-outs.

When You No Longer Recognize Your Own Emotions

Interoception is key to understanding and expressing emotions; impairment can lead to alexithymia, affecting mental health.

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Mental health

Tackling Anxiety: What Works and What Doesn't

Wellness

Does Your Anxiety Thermostat Need an Adjustment?

Higher anxiety tolerance leads to better anxiety management.

A person's perception of anxiety can significantly vary between individuals.

Mental health

Tackling Anxiety: What Works and What Doesn't

Wellness

Does Your Anxiety Thermostat Need an Adjustment?

Higher anxiety tolerance leads to better anxiety management.

A person's perception of anxiety can significantly vary between individuals.

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What Happens When Menopause Meets Motherhood

Perimenopause significantly impacts mothers' emotional and cognitive functioning, creating new parenting challenges.

Reframing Misophonia: A Cognitive Shift

Reframing helps mitigate emotional responses to misophonia triggers by shifting thoughts rather than denying feelings.

Yoga

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Can't Focus? Feeling Overwhelmed? This Yin Yoga Practice Can Help.

Yin yoga is beneficial for stress relief, promoting emotional regulation and relaxation.

Ice and Anxiety

The Mammalian Dive Response is an effective anxiety relief technique.

Plunging your face in cold water helps manage panic attacks and emotional distress.

How to Navigate Workplace Desire Without Capsizing Your Career

Professional attraction leads to complications; it's the secrecy around it that poses real danger.

The Perfect Patient

Perfectionism obscures true emotional needs, complicating client growth in therapy.

How to Help Children Who Procrastinate

Procrastination is the unnecessary, voluntary delay of an intended task despite knowing that it may cause harm, connected to emotional regulation rather than laziness.

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#resilience

Mental health

Master Your Emotions

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Resilience Decoded: Brain, Genes, and Adaptation

Resilience is a dynamic process influenced by brain function, genetics, and environment, which can be cultivated.

Mental health

Master Your Emotions

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Resilience Decoded: Brain, Genes, and Adaptation

Resilience is a dynamic process influenced by brain function, genetics, and environment, which can be cultivated.

Living a Meaningful Life After Complex Trauma

C-PTSD significantly alters emotional health and relationships, complicating recovery.

Effective therapies like DBT and EMDR are critical for emotional regulation in C-PTSD recovery.

Building trust through attachment-based therapy is essential for improved social functioning.

The Best Mindfulness Tool for Managing Difficult Emotions

Chronic stress in children leads to long-term difficulties in emotional regulation.

Acceptance is essential for understanding and managing emotions effectively.

#highly-sensitive-people

Mental health

3 Helpful Therapy Skills for Highly Sensitive People

HSPs can regain control by facing emotions without avoidance, using evidenced-based strategies like Radical Acceptance and choosing valued action.

How Highly Sensitive People Can Set Better Boundaries

HSPs' heightened sensitivity creates challenges in setting boundaries and emotional regulation.

Advocating for personal needs leads to healthier relationships for HSPs.

The DEAR MAN technique empowers HSPs to communicate their boundaries effectively.

3 Helpful Therapy Skills for Highly Sensitive People

HSPs can regain control by facing emotions without avoidance, using evidenced-based strategies like Radical Acceptance and choosing valued action.

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How Highly Sensitive People Can Set Better Boundaries

HSPs' heightened sensitivity creates challenges in setting boundaries and emotional regulation.

Advocating for personal needs leads to healthier relationships for HSPs.

The DEAR MAN technique empowers HSPs to communicate their boundaries effectively.

Why Emotional Regulation and Attachment Matter in Sex

Those with a secure attachment style tend to have higher sexual satisfaction due to better communication, conflict resolution skills, and comfort with intimacy.

Relationships

#emotional-intelligence

Parenting

3 Ways to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

Naming emotions helps children manage feelings and reduces distress.

Guiding without solving fosters children's confidence and resilience.

Children learn emotional regulation by observing parents.

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How to deal with tantrums at any age: from toddlers to teens

Tantrums are emotional outbursts signaling a need for emotional regulation rather than simply bad behavior.

Understanding tantrums can help parents respond better to emotional distress in children.

3 Ways to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

Naming emotions helps children manage feelings and reduces distress.

Guiding without solving fosters children's confidence and resilience.

Children learn emotional regulation by observing parents.

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How to deal with tantrums at any age: from toddlers to teens

Tantrums are emotional outbursts signaling a need for emotional regulation rather than simply bad behavior.

Understanding tantrums can help parents respond better to emotional distress in children.

The Window of Tolerance and Chronic Illness

Understanding the Window of Tolerance helps individuals manage emotions, especially during chronic illness.

Emotional regulation allows people to bring themselves back within their Window of Tolerance.

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Eliminate Stress In Seconds With This Simple Breathing Technique

Diaphragmatic breathing helps manage anxiety effectively by promoting a calmer breathing pattern.

Who Can You Turn to When Things Look Bad?

Social reappraisal can effectively aid in managing stress, especially when personal cognitive reappraisal fails.

Women

This Is Your Brain on Contraceptives

The impact of hormonal contraceptives on the brain remains largely unknown despite their widespread use.

How to Avoid Marital Burnout

Stress hinders emotional expression in marriages, leading to couple burnout.

Emotional authenticity enhances relationship satisfaction and reduces burnout risks.

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Cognitive Flexibility and ADHD

Cognitive flexibility is crucial for adapting to change, especially for those with ADHD.

How to Instantly Disarm Someone Who Pushes Your Buttons

Responding with curiosity allows for better emotional regulation and more productive conversations.

Using the phrase 'That's interesting; tell me more' can transform potentially reactive moments into opportunities for deeper understanding.

Stop the Meltdown: The Key to Your Child's Emotional Control

Teaching children to label emotions can help them manage anger and frustration.

Empathetic communication encourages emotional regulation in children.

Consistent and patient guidance is essential for emotional growth in kids.

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