How to Regulate Strong Negative Emotions: The Power of Validation
Lisa A Romano Breakdown to Breakthroughs
Lisa A. Romano
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Regulating strong negative emotions is like having a superpower for your well-being. Managing those intense feelings—like anger, sadness, or anxiety—helps us navigate life's challenges more smoothly. It's like being the captain of your own emotional ship, steering through stormy waters with control. If we let those emotions run wild, they can take over and make everything feel more difficult.
Learning to regulate them is like having a toolkit for emotional balance, allowing us to respond thoughtfully instead of reacting impulsively. It's not about ignoring or suppressing feelings but finding a healthy way to deal with them, so they don't control us. Like superheroes learn to use their powers wisely, regulating emotions empowers us to handle life's ups and downs with resilience and grace.
In this episode, learn from Lisa A. Romano how to best regulate strong emotions through the power of validation.
Join Lisa this April, as she relaunches her 12 Week Breakthrough Coaching Program for those wishing to heal codependency and break free of the chains of generational trauma, rooted in abandonment.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | My name is Lisa A. Romano. |
| 0:08.0 | I am a life coach, best-selling author, YouTube vlogger, meditation teacher, an expert in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse. |
| 0:16.0 | I am a believer in the power of an organized mind. |
| 0:20.0 | My aim is to help people learn what it means to live above the veil of consciousness rather |
| 0:25.8 | than living a reactive life. |
| 0:28.3 | May your heart feel blessed, your mind feel expanded, and your spirit find hope as you |
| 0:33.5 | spend time with me here at the Breakdown to Breakthrough podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | So today we're going to be exploring how we can process an emotional trigger. |
| 0:44.2 | Like what do we do to help ourselves emotionally regulate? |
| 0:48.6 | How do we respond when we have been triggered? |
| 0:52.1 | And what we can do to really learn to better regulate our emotions |
| 0:55.7 | when we are triggered. |
| 0:57.9 | In my own personal life, I did not know that I had deep emotional wounds. |
| 1:04.1 | In my situation, I was taught that what I thought and what I felt was irrelevant. |
| 1:09.2 | There was no healthy mirroring. |
| 1:11.7 | Parents who are on the ball, parents who understand the needs of their child, know that |
| 1:17.0 | they have to help their children regulate their emotions. |
| 1:20.2 | So how does mommy regulate your emotions? |
| 1:23.2 | When you cry, mommy kisses your boo-boo and you feel better. And within seconds, your emotions seem to be |
| 1:31.1 | regulated, or at least they're becoming regulated. When you are upset after school, your parents |
| 1:38.2 | are inquisitive. So what happened today? Why do you look upset? They give you a platform to express |
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