Emotional Regulation with Marie Gervais #emotionalhealing #emotionalregulation

13 Dec 2024 · 1 min

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In this interview segment, Marie Gervais emphasizes that emotional regulation hinges on simple, already‑present bodily processes that become effective when we bring conscious awareness to them. When asked how to help someone who feels angry but is unsure what to do, she stresses that the first step is to name the emotion. She points out that individuals with a limited emotional vocabulary tend to be the most dysregulated, linking emotional intelligence to the breadth of emotion words we use. Gervais advocates for expanding one’s emotional lexicon by actively asking questions like “How do you feel about this?” and encouraging people to articulate their feelings, thereby creating a pathway toward regulation and appropriate action.

Emotional regulation is the most important thing. I'm talking about that in the TED Talk, so I don't wanna give it all away, but it does involve simple body processes that we already do. We just have to be more conscious about them.
Okay, so could you define a little bit better what that might look like from a physiological perspective or from a case study perspective for somebody who says, well, I know I'm pissed off, I just don't know what to do about it?
Well, actually naming it is the most important thing. First off is being able to name it. And interestingly, so this comes into the emotional intelligence part, people who have a very limited emotions vocabulary are the most dysregulated the most frequently.
Wow, interesting.
Yeah, so actually using more range of emotions words in the way that you speak about things and asking people, how do you feel about this? How do we feel about this? Is this something we need to say, do anything about?