06/10/2026
DBT Skills : Module : Emotion Regulation. Skill. Understanding Emotions.
Emotions are crucial in navigating everyday life. Many of life's problems can be resolved by better emotional awareness.
"I need a drink after that"
"The day I've had.."
"She made me so angry"
"He had such road rage .."
"It's like treading on eggshells coming home from
school/college/work''...
Emotional awareness is key to emotion regulation. Then not needing to change the way we feel with anger outbursts, unhealthy lifestyle choices :drink, drugs, feeding our feelings, overeating, spending, shopping, gambling, other forms of unhealthy ways of coping /self harm.
Most of us have a more than reasonable grasp on emotional literacy.
We know that we need the so called ' negative emotions' as much as the feel good 'positive emotions'.
If we've never experienced sadness then we wouldn't know joy.[ ie :the movie Inside Out and its sequel].
Yet still we go about our day, or many of us do - blaming external issues for rising levels of stress, overwhelm, reactivity.
DBT can really help us with this.
[Image credit : Brene Brown who adapted the seminal work of Wilcox, Plutchik & Zinker]
