Emotions & Regulation Strategies
Understanding Emotions & Finding Strategies That Work for You
Emotions can be overwhelming, confusing, and sometimes difficult to navigate. This resource page is designed to help you recognize, understand, and manage your emotions in a way that feels supportive and empowering.
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Here, you’ll find worksheets, exercises, and practical strategies to help you build emotional awareness, develop coping tools, and create a plan for navigating difficult moments. Whether you're looking to identify emotions, regulate overwhelming feelings, or explore new ways to support yourself, these resources are here to help.
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Take your time exploring, and remember—there’s no right or wrong way to engage with these tools. Use what resonates with you, and leave the rest.
Popular Workbooks, Worksheets, Information
This workbook is designed to help you recognize, track, and manage emotions in a practical way. Through guided exercises, you'll explore how feelings show up in your body, develop strategies for coping, and build emotional awareness over time. Whether you struggle to name emotions, feel overwhelmed, or want to improve regulation skills, this resource provides a structured, supportive approach.
This worksheet helps you identify people, places, and supports that bring you comfort and stability. Use it to map out your personal support system and strengthen your sense of safety during difficult times. Click here to learn more!
This guide explains how our emotions are regulated through three key systems: Threat (Protection & Survival), Drive (Motivation & Achievement), and Soothing (Calm & Connection). It explores how these systems function normally, what happens when they become dysregulated, and how they relate to the Window of Tolerance—our emotional capacity to handle stress.
You'll also find practical strategies to regulate emotions, return to balance, and strengthen emotional resilience. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or disconnected, this resource provides tools to help you regain stability and well-being.
Emotional and Nervous System Regulation
Vergence
Mindfulness Skills
Observe, Describe, Participate
Mind States
Emotion Mind
Emotion Mind will act out of fear, excitement, sadness, anger, joy and more.
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Triggers can be:
- Argument
- Fighting urges
- Procrastinating tasks
- Certain people, places or events
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It can be difficult to maintain impartial and a reasonable mindset when in this state.
Wise Mind
BOTH Rational and Emotional minds are used when making a decisions. The Wise Mind honours and accepts emotions, while taking into account the facts. It is often referred to as your inner wisdom.
Reason Mind
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Reason Mind bases its decisions on facts, evidence and what has worked in the past.
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Situations that use rational mind may be:
Deciding on what to eat
Driving
Planning an event
Learning
Fixing an item
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However these activities can be hijacked by emotions. For example, deciding on what to eat by emotions if you are trying to eat healthier.