Emotion Regulation Hack: Primary & Secondary Emotions
From Borderline to Beautiful: Hope and Help for BPD with Rose Skeeters, MA, LPC, PN2
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The Triune Model for Emotion Regulation
There's something called the triune model that talks about how when people have developmental trauma, they get stuck in this mammalian brain or this limbic system and they have this automatic sympathetic nervous system response. Once you're able to turn that off, then we can start talking about, okay, well I turned it off. What do I do now? The thoughts are coming. There's definitely more to it than that, but you got to start somewhere because your brain goes right into that survival mode. So if you don't believe that there's another way through emotion regulation, look it up. Go research it. Can you have an active or activated sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system response
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