Strategies when you are feeling overwhelmed / out of control (emotion regulation):
- Mindful breathing
- Forward-looking strategies
- Attention-shifting strategies
- Cognitive-reframing strategies
- Meta-moment
Strategies when you are feeling overwhelmed / out of control (emotion regulation):
Today's sermon is about reincarnation, and it's got me thinking about the limits of redefining oneself, starting a new chapter, and how much you pull your old habits of thinking with you. Nature / nurture / karma.
The older I get, the more I think about change.
Trying to have patience with my grumpy set point. I have so much to be grateful for, so I bristle at myself when I start the day - pretty much every day - feeling the bah humbug of it all.
My family knows to tread softly around me before the first coffee. My exuberant morning husband knows to warn of coming in hot.
This summer has been the first time in years that I've been able to wake, get ready, and head to work without taking a kid somewhere first. There are many days there are no words until after 8 am! So great!
I thought maybe I'd age out. Get to be one of those retirees that tweets with the birds in the morning, singing as the coffee drips.