Adolescence is a stage full of changes: in your body, in your way of thinking and also in what you feel.
Sometimes emotions appear very intense: anger, sadness, anxiety, excitement or frustration. It may feel like everything is happening too fast or too loud.
Emotional regulation doesn’t mean stopping feeling or “controlling” yourself all the time. It means learning to recognize what you feel, understand where it comes from, and find healthy ways to deal with it without hurting yourself or others.
It happens to all of us to react impulsively, say something that we later regret or feel that an emotion overwhelms us.
Learning to regulate emotions is a process, not something that is achieved overnight.
Regulating your emotions can help you:
- Think more clearly when you are upset
- Express yourself without exploiting or keeping everything to yourself
- Make better decisions
- Take care of your relationshipsFeel more in control of what happens to you
It’s not about being perfect. It’s about getting to know yourself, giving yourself time to breathe, and learning new ways to respond when something affects you.
Test: How is your emotional regulation?
Adolescence Series
Adolescence is the series that Free press that provides practical and reflective tools that help young people strengthen their emotional intelligence from a close and understandable perspective.
Each topic includes a self-test designed so that young people can identify how developed they have that specific skill.
In total there are six topics and two will be published per week with these themes: self-knowledge, emotional regulation, emotional communication, self-esteem and self-love, interpersonal relationships and emotion management. In the print edition look for the plates on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, April 7-22.
With information from Violeta Velásquez. Source: MA Silvana Ferrari, educational coach, educational psychologist and university professor. Website: ProEducación Gt. https://638a650893374.site123.me/