TAM+ EP46: Unpacking Primary vs. Secondary Emotions: A Path to Improved Mental Health
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Do you want to improve your emotional regulation and decision-making? I will be sharing the key to achieving greater emotional control and better choices. Learn the secret to enhancing your ability to manage your feelings and make sound decisions. Discover the solution to experiencing improved emotional regulation and better decision-making in your life.
Download the “Distinguishing between Primary Vs. Secondary Emotions Worksheet”
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Discover effective strategies for mental health and addiction recovery.
- Learn to identify and manage primary and secondary emotions.
- Explore the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for emotional regulation.
- Cultivate mindfulness and self-reflection for improved emotional well-being.
- Understand the impact of trauma on decision-making processes.
Effective Mental Health Strategies
Understanding and managing primary and secondary emotions are crucial strategies for effective mental health. These strategies involve recognizing the differences between valid and genuine emotional responses versus responses that arise from judgments of these primary emotions. This enables individuals to maintain emotional balance by preventing secondary emotions from amplifying the intensity of primary emotions.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Addicted Mind Plus, the podcast where recovery, mental health, and wellness take the front seat. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Dwayne Austerland, and joining me is my co-host, Eric Osterland, known for his insightful work on the Stuck Brain podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | In each episode, we'll dive into actionable, small steps to help those in recovery journey further along the path to wellness. |
| 0:22.3 | Our conversations are designed to be concise, typically around 15 minutes, though we may |
| 0:27.0 | occasionally delve deeper when the topic demands it. Our goal to provide you with practical |
| 0:32.0 | advice grounded in real experiences and expert insights to empower your recovery journey. |
| 0:38.7 | So whether you're on a break, on a walk, or just taking a moment for yourself, |
| 0:42.1 | join us as we explore the many facets of recovery and mental health, one small step at a time. |
| 0:48.4 | This is The Addicted Mind Plus, where your journey to wellness gets an extra boost. |
| 0:53.2 | So let's get started. |
| 0:55.3 | All right, everyone, welcome to wellness gets an extra boost. So let's get started. All right, everyone. |
| 0:56.3 | Welcome to the Addicted Mind. |
| 0:58.3 | Plus, I'm here with my brother, Eric Osterlin, from the Stuck Brain podcast. |
| 1:04.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 1:04.8 | Nice to be here. |
| 1:05.8 | And I think we have a really good topic today. |
| 1:09.1 | This is a topic that I really like and has been extremely |
| 1:14.2 | helpful to me. We're going to talk about primary emotions versus secondary emotions, what that |
| 1:22.2 | means and the concept behind that. I think this will be really, really helpful. Yeah, I'm really excited about this one because I know a little bit about it, but I'm not as |
| 1:32.9 | diverse in it as you. So I'm excited to kind of talk about this and learn about this together. |
| 1:38.7 | And I think it's very, it's very helpful. Yeah, yeah. It's been a really a lot of help in my own life. So let's jump in. |
| 1:45.7 | I want to put some context to this. The way I'm talking about primary and secondary emotions today |
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