The Science Of Emotion Regulation: A Five-Step Plan For Not Losing Your Sh*t | Marc Brackett
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The Science Of Emotion Regulation: A Five-Step Plan For Not Losing Your Sh*t | Marc Brackett

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 20261 hr 11 min
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  • Relationships & psychology

Plus: why being your 'best self' isn't about being nice or passive, why regulation starts before things go wrong, and how 'polyregulation' can help you up your game. Marc Brackett, Ph.D. is the author of Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want and the bestselling Permission to Feel. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. You can watch Marc's podcast interviews here. In this episode we talk about: Why your "true self" m...

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Hello everybody, welcome to the 10% happier podcast. I'm your host Dan Harris. One of the worst feelings in my experience is when I lose my shit. And it's even worse when I lose my shit unnecessarily. The humiliating process of looking back at that and then having to make amends, etc, etc. So what can you do in advance to prevent these moments from happening? That's

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That's what we're going to talk about today with my guest, Dr. Mark Brackett, who is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the author of several books including his latest Dealing with Feeling. You may remember that I had Dr. Brackett on the show a few months ago.

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You guys loved that conversation so much that we're bringing him back. Dr. Brackett, welcome back to the show. Cool. It's nice to be back again.

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