2.4.3. Exercise: Emotion Regulation Self Exploration
Write about a time when you felt overwhelmed. Describe what led up to your feeling
overwhelmed. How did you cope with
feeling overwhelmed? How well did
these coping strategies work? How
did you succeed in getting over feeling overwhelmed? What strategies helped? Looking back and using the emotional regulation strategies
described, what would have helped you to cope better? What did you need?
From whom? After you
have finished, try to do the same thing for a time when you felt numb or
emotionally dead. How did your
emotion regulation strategies differ between the two times? In what ways were they similar?
Materials designed to
accompany the book Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The
Process-Experiential Approach to Change from APA Books.
©2003 Robert Elliott, Jeanne Watson, Rhonda Goldman, and Leslie Greenberg
http://www.process-experiential.org/learning