4 Steps: Manage Your Emotions When Triggered

I want to give you steps on how to better manage your emotions. The first one is to recognize and name them without judging them or feeling like you shouldn't have them. Number two, recognizing the thoughts underneath the emotions is going to help you understand what your perspective is and where these emotions are coming from. Then I want you to recognize where the distorted thinking is in those thoughts. So if the thought is I'm never gonna get better, recognize that black and white thinking. Recognize when you're telling the future, when you have no idea what the future really holds, when we can see where we're creating meaning, where there doesn't need to be any meaning that can calm the emotion down. Number four is to recognize your unhealthy patterns. We want to understand how we contribute to the situation so that we can also see if there's something that we can control to help with the situation versus always blaming somebody else.