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An Different Approach to Emotional Regulation

Case Study

When Dean came to me, he didn’t even tell me about his emotional regulation challenges.
He spoke about procrastinating, lack of time management, having a hard time making decisions and more.

About 3 weeks into Optimize Your ADHD Brain, Dean shares how he’s seen a massive improvement in how he responds to his children. While he loved his children, they were often doing wild activities which would make him angry, causing him to yell out his children.
Over the weekend, his children played with neighbors and did some crazy activities that Dean did not approve of. He noticed though, that instead of yelling at them, he was able to take a moment to collect himself and approach the situation in a calm, healthy and a lot more beneficial manner.

As the program progressed, he kept on sharing his improvements in his emotional regulation while he was becoming more productive, getting more done in less time and planning ahead

Thinking Skills

While you are doing any task, you (without even realizing it!) are using your 28 thinking skills.

When the thinking skills you need to use are strong, doing the task happens easily.
If the thinking skill you need to use is weak, doing the task will be a challenge.

The struggle that Dean had, came from weak thinking skills of stopping & thinking, categorizations and labeling.

Emotions & Thinking Skills

Emotions and thinking skills are 2 sides of the same coin.

When a person has trauma, often they find it hard to think clearly, get brain fog etc.
And when a person is struggling to do a task, it often causes stress or anxiety. 

It works the other way too, when you improve your thinking skills, emotional regulation improves.
When you improve emotional regulation skills, your thinking skills improve.

So, while we were working on Dean’s thinking skills, his emotional regulation automatically improved.

Stopping & Thinking

This thinking skill is just what is sounds like. Stopping and thinking before taking action. The opposite of this thinking skill is impulsivity.
To get better at stopping and thinking, Dean simply became more aware of it.
During session, if I would catch him working to fast and making mistakes, I’d remind him to go slow.
He put reminders everywhere and also told his family and employees to remind him if he’s going too fast and it’s causing trouble, to remind to take a moment to stop and think. 

A big part to stopping and thinking is showing your brain it’s worth it.
I like to remind myself, go slow now to speed later. When you take the time upfront to stop and think, you save yourself lots of headache later and can speed.

I don’t think you need me to tell how stopping and thinking is directly related to reducing yelling. 😉 By training is brain to slow down in other areas, when it came to seeing his children acting wild, his brain was able to take a moment to stop and think before yelling.​

Categorizations

Part of being able to categorize, is being able to zoom into the little details, the small categorizes, or zoom out and see the big picture.
To get better at categorizing, we started using the terms “Zoom In” and “Zoom out” a lot.
I’m zooming in to this specific email, I’m zooming out the client's entire campaign.
I’m zooming into the details of contract; I’m zooming out to see how this effects the whole business.

This helped Dean while dealing with his children greatly.
Now it was no longer just seeing this specific incident.
By Zooming out, he could see in the grand scheme of things, this even doesn’t really matter.
Yet, he could also zoom in and see how his specific reaction could affect his child.

Labeling

Labeling is about calling items, ideas, concepts etc. by their right name.
We improved this by taking 5 minutes a day to label items around his house and replacing vague words with their right label.
So instead of saying, “it, there,” etc. labeling what is “it”? Or what is “there”?

This helped a great deal in his communication with himself and with his children.
Firstly, he was able to give words to his feelings and emotions.
Second, when he was talking to his children, they now understood him better, they could see why what they were doing was dangerous, follow his instructions and even be able to express their own thoughts more clearly.

It's Not Emotional Regulation Work

Remember, we did not work ON emotional regulation. By improving his thinking skills, automatically his emotional regulation improved.
Each one of these thinking skills were practiced in a calm environment, not specifically during a time of high emotions.
This way, by the time he was put in a challenging situation, he already had lots of practice and now it was much easier.

Your Challenge

Your challenge this week is pick a thinking skill to work on and see if effects the emotional side of the coin.

If you’d like to learn more about reducing impulsivity, see episode 439.

If you’d like to learn more about categorizations, see episode 467.

If you’d like to learn more about labeling, see episode 459.


Cheers to Peak Brain Performance!

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This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.

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Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at. 

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An Different Approach to Emotional Regulation

Case Study

When Dean came to me, he didn’t even tell me about his emotional regulation challenges.
He spoke about procrastinating, lack of time management, having a hard time making decisions and more.

About 3 weeks into Optimize Your ADHD Brain, Dean shares how he’s seen a massive improvement in how he responds to his children. While he loved his children, they were often doing wild activities which would make him angry, causing him to yell out his children.
Over the weekend, his children played with neighbors and did some crazy activities that Dean did not approve of. He noticed though, that instead of yelling at them, he was able to take a moment to collect himself and approach the situation in a calm, healthy and a lot more beneficial manner.

As the program progressed, he kept on sharing his improvements in his emotional regulation while he was becoming more productive, getting more done in less time and planning ahead

Thinking Skills

While you are doing any task, you (without even realizing it!) are using your 28 thinking skills.

When the thinking skills you need to use are strong, doing the task happens easily.
If the thinking skill you need to use is weak, doing the task will be a challenge.

The struggle that Dean had, came from weak thinking skills of stopping & thinking, categorizations and labeling.

Emotions & Thinking Skills

Emotions and thinking skills are 2 sides of the same coin.

When a person has trauma, often they find it hard to think clearly, get brain fog etc.
And when a person is struggling to do a task, it often causes stress or anxiety. 

It works the other way too, when you improve your thinking skills, emotional regulation improves.
When you improve emotional regulation skills, your thinking skills improve.

So, while we were working on Dean’s thinking skills, his emotional regulation automatically improved.

Stopping & Thinking

This thinking skill is just what is sounds like. Stopping and thinking before taking action. The opposite of this thinking skill is impulsivity.
To get better at stopping and thinking, Dean simply became more aware of it.
During session, if I would catch him working to fast and making mistakes, I’d remind him to go slow.
He put reminders everywhere and also told his family and employees to remind him if he’s going too fast and it’s causing trouble, to remind to take a moment to stop and think. 

A big part to stopping and thinking is showing your brain it’s worth it.
I like to remind myself, go slow now to speed later. When you take the time upfront to stop and think, you save yourself lots of headache later and can speed.

I don’t think you need me to tell how stopping and thinking is directly related to reducing yelling. 😉 By training is brain to slow down in other areas, when it came to seeing his children acting wild, his brain was able to take a moment to stop and think before yelling.​

Categorizations

Part of being able to categorize, is being able to zoom into the little details, the small categorizes, or zoom out and see the big picture.
To get better at categorizing, we started using the terms “Zoom In” and “Zoom out” a lot.
I’m zooming in to this specific email, I’m zooming out the client's entire campaign.
I’m zooming into the details of contract; I’m zooming out to see how this effects the whole business.

This helped Dean while dealing with his children greatly.
Now it was no longer just seeing this specific incident.
By Zooming out, he could see in the grand scheme of things, this even doesn’t really matter.
Yet, he could also zoom in and see how his specific reaction could affect his child.

Labeling

Labeling is about calling items, ideas, concepts etc. by their right name.
We improved this by taking 5 minutes a day to label items around his house and replacing vague words with their right label.
So instead of saying, “it, there,” etc. labeling what is “it”? Or what is “there”?

This helped a great deal in his communication with himself and with his children.
Firstly, he was able to give words to his feelings and emotions.
Second, when he was talking to his children, they now understood him better, they could see why what they were doing was dangerous, follow his instructions and even be able to express their own thoughts more clearly.

It's Not Emotional Regulation Work

Remember, we did not work ON emotional regulation. By improving his thinking skills, automatically his emotional regulation improved.
Each one of these thinking skills were practiced in a calm environment, not specifically during a time of high emotions.
This way, by the time he was put in a challenging situation, he already had lots of practice and now it was much easier.

Your Challenge

Your challenge this week is pick a thinking skill to work on and see if effects the emotional side of the coin.

If you’d like to learn more about reducing impulsivity, see episode 439.

If you’d like to learn more about categorizations, see episode 467.

If you’d like to learn more about labeling, see episode 459.


Cheers to Peak Brain Performance!

ST Rappaport Brain Coach for entrepreneurs png
1.png

Hi, I'm ST,

Just like you, I want to be more efficient and effective.

Most entrepreneurs want to grow their business but already got a lot of stress.
At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.
Learn more here.

3.png

Your Essential Guide

to Cognitive Functions

This guide will give you all you need to start improving your cognitive functions. Learn what all 28 thinking skills are, how they apply to you and what you can do today to begin improving them.

2.png

Cognitive Functions Assessment

Thinking is not one big thing. Thinking is made up of 28 parts, called cognitive functions.
Take the FREE assessment to see where each of your cognitive functions are currently at. 

1 Million downloads per epidode the LifePix University Podcast.png

We're on for 1M downloads

By the end of 2025

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