Category: Emotion Regulation
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Soothing Emotions with the Five Senses
Discover how soothing your five senses—sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste—can help you calm your mind and body. This guide explains simple self-soothing techniques that can reduce stress and restore emotional balance, even if you’ve never learned them before.
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6 Ways to Reduce Vulnerability to Emotions
Emotional vulnerability often increases when we neglect basic health habits like sleep, nutrition, and exercise. Dr. Christine E. Dickson explains how simple daily routines—such as staying hydrated, eating balanced meals, and practicing mindfulness—can strengthen emotional resilience and help prevent overreactions to everyday stressors, keeping both mind and body in balance.
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How to Let Go of Emotional Suffering
Intense emotions such as anxiety, sadness, anger, shame, embarrassment, or guilt can quickly take us over and create emotional suffering. Right now, you might be experiencing an intense emotion but don’t know how to deal with it. Maybe you are using distraction to cope but the moment you stop the distraction the intense emotion floods…
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8 Ways to Stop Obsessive Thinking
Obsessive thinking can feel like being trapped in a mental loop. The more you engage with it, the deeper you spiral. Breaking free requires shifting your attention — through movement, breath, creativity, or connection. These mindful strategies from Dr. Christine E. Dickson help calm your mind and restore emotional balance.
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Using Wise Mind to Manage Stress
Managing stress is a crucial skill in today’s fast-paced world. One approach that can help is using the concept of the wise mind from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). DBT is a form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the importance of balancing emotions and reasoning to improve mental health. The wise mind is a combination of the…
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SufferWell
No one teaches us how to effectively cope with suffering in life, which is why most of us turn to alcohol during difficult times. But what if we could develop a new set of skills, skills we never learned as children, skills that could teach us how to “SufferWell?”