Emotion regulation is the ability to control strong emotional impulses for alternative goals and takes a long time to develop, with individual differences...
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“Emotion regulation is the ability to control strong emotional impulses for alternative goals and takes a long time to develop, with individual differences predicting long-term outcomes like mental health and academic achievement.”
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“Emotion regulation is the ability to control strong emotional impulses for alternative goals and takes a long time to develop, with individual differences predicting long-term outcomes like mental health and academic achievement.”
a Columbia developmental affective neuroscientist · source video
“Exposure to familiar childhood stimuli, such as music, can reduce autonomic arousal and anxiety in stressed adults by activating prefrontal cortex regulation.”
a Columbia developmental affective neuroscientist · source video
“Stress hormones disrupt the anterior cingulate cortex, reducing empathy and moral behavior, but blocking these hormones can preserve empathy despite stress.”
a Stanford neuroendocrinologist · source video
“Short-term stress is adaptive and lifesaving for acute crises, but chronic psychosocial stress causes physiological damage because the system did not evolve for prolonged activation.”
a Stanford neuroendocrinologist · source video
“If you cannot draw a full breath, pause mid-sentence, or sit still, your nervous system is likely dysregulated and needs attention.”
an attachment coach and former licensed marriage and family therapist · Instagram
“If you reach for your phone within 30 seconds of putting it down, it indicates your nervous system requires constant stimulation to feel settled, suggesting a need to work on regulation.”
an attachment coach and former licensed marriage and family therapist · Instagram
“When a man goes silent mid-fight, it is often a dorsal vagal shutdown where his nervous system freezes to protect him because he feels hopeless, not stonewalling or punishment.”
an attachment coach and former licensed marriage and family therapist · Instagram
“Intense but manageable stress can release vasopressin and oxytocin, enhancing attachment, but chronic or unmanageable stress blocks this system and is harmful.”
an attachment coach and former licensed marriage and family therapist · Instagram
“Meditation, mindfulness, and removing oneself from stressful situations are effective ways to reduce stress and support mitochondrial and overall health.”
a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist specializing in metabolic psychiatry · Instagram
“Understanding and treating mental health requires integrating brain, gut, and whole-person connections to break the cycle between mental and metabolic health.”
a Harvard Medical School psychiatrist specializing in metabolic psychiatry · Instagram
“In situations of danger, the natural responses are freeze, fight, or flight, and the appropriate response depends on the context to maximize survival.”
a media host and psychologist with a lapsed clinical license · Instagram
“The first three years are critical for learning emotional regulation, patience, frustration tolerance, sharing, and adapting to structure.”
a psychoanalyst and author of Being There · Instagram
“Many young parents today struggle with frustration tolerance and emotional regulation, which affects their ability to cope with infant distress and parenting challenges.”
a psychoanalyst and author of Being There · Instagram
“Keeping babies close to their mothers for the first year and carrying them around helps keep their stress levels low by keeping the stress regulation part of the brain offline as intended.”
a psychoanalyst and author of Being There · Instagram
“After the first year and up to three years, introducing stress incrementally helps children integrate stress appropriately without overactivating the amygdala.”
a psychoanalyst and author of Being There · Instagram
“When activated, the Sympathetic Nervous System triggers fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses, and recognizing this can help pause automatic reactions.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Practicing deep breathing, going for a walk, cozying up, or journaling can help calm the nervous system and reduce impulsive reactions.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“The expert advises allowing the nervous system time to cycle and find new balance after ending an unhealthy relationship, even if it feels boring or scary, to enable brain rewiring and nervous system slowing down.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram sponsored
“Regulating your nervous system can help manage frustration and improve interactions when your avoidant partner is processing their feelings.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Understanding our nervous system states when in fear and learning new communication methods can be a game changer in managing anxious-avoidant relationship dynamics.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“You can detox your body of those stress hormones and rewire your system to learn to maintain a calm state”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Healing core wounds and challenging automatic negative conclusions by working with the nervous system and finding safe people can help build more secure relationships.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Co-regulation is how our bodies sync and soothe through presence, voice, and shared understanding, helping the nervous system learn safety in relationships and laying the foundation for deeper healing.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Healing requires co-regulation and tools that allow taking time to work with the nervous system rather than fighting against it.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram sponsored
“Healing involves teaching the body that calm is not boring but healing, retraining the nervous system to experience peace as connection rather than disconnection.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram sponsored
“The book SAFE offers tools to retrain the nervous system after rollercoaster relationships, though this is a commercial product.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram sponsored
“Co-regulation allows us to borrow safety from someone else's nervous system and offer ours in return, helping to build safety and connection.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Both partners can learn to pause, name what is happening, and create safety together to improve regulation and relationship health.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Healing anxious attachment involves rewiring the nervous system to tolerate discomfort that the younger self never had support to hold.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“You expand your window of tolerance not by pushing into overwhelm but by staying with feelings just one second longer than before and allowing your nervous system to regulate.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Therapists encourage sitting with discomfort to teach the brain that feeling uncomfortable is safe and survivable, but this must be done gently and compassionately.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Using small doses, gentle curiosity, and compassionate pacing honors younger parts instead of overriding them, facilitating nervous system regulation.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Simple, practical tools used in the moment of being triggered help parents stay grounded and repair attachment ruptures.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Healing anxious-avoidant attachment patterns takes learning to soothe your nervous system without chasing the avoidant partner or trying to prove your worth.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“Real healing happens from the inside out through somatic work and nervous system regulation by meeting the parts of you that learned to survive.”
a licensed mental health counselor · Instagram
“The more we learn to regulate our emotions, the less reactive we are, and the better our relationships become.”
a certified relationship coach · Instagram
“High levels of reactivity, such as reacting with defensiveness or hostility to external stimuli, indicate problems with emotions that need attention.”
the founder of ManTalks · Instagram
“Struggling to accomplish tasks due to emotional difficulties shows a disconnection from emotions that should be addressed to improve functioning.”
the founder of ManTalks · Instagram
“Until you become more deeply aware of and conscious to what you are experiencing emotionally and are able to regulate, sift through, and process it, you will repeatedly choose dysfunctional relationships and miss important information for fulfillment.”
the founder of ManTalks · Instagram
“He emphasizes the importance of healing the parts of oneself that create dependency on social media to regulate the nervous system and regain freedom.”
a human connection specialist · Instagram
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If you have a good idea, write it down because it is a gift that could change your whole life and forgetting it could prevent progress.
Strong consensus“If you have a good idea, write it down because it is a gift that could change your whole life and forgetting it could prevent progress.”
Mental illnesses are symptoms of metabolic dysfunction affecting the whole body and brain, not just isolated brain problems.
Strong consensus“Mental illnesses are symptoms of metabolic dysfunction affecting the whole body and brain, not just isolated brain problems.”
He discusses new ways to treat anxiety, OCD, and PTSD by focusing on brain metabolic health rather than only symptoms.
Strong consensus“He discusses new ways to treat anxiety, OCD, and PTSD by focusing on brain metabolic health rather than only symptoms.”