How to Better Regulate Your Emotions | Dr. Marc Brackett

It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols and Operating Manual for the Human Body.

I think, firstly, you know, in my book, I have something called the dealing with feeling wheel.

A lot of people think emotion regulation is getting rid of a feeling.

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Dr. Marc Brackett, PhD, is founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. We discuss the science of emotion regulation and practical tools to increase your emotional intelligence. Dr. Brackett clarifies exactly how to do that both in the context of relationships, but also things that you can do on your own to become more emotionally intelligent to later serve you in the context of relationships, work, school, etc. We also discuss how your childhood experiences influence your relationship with emotions, with particular emphasis on how boys and men are socialized around emotional processing and expression. Read the show notes at hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Joovv: https://joovv.com/huberman Lingo: https://hellolingo.com/huberman LMNT: https://drinklmnt.com/huberman Rorra: https://rorra.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Marc Brackett (00:02:55) Emotion Regulation (00:05:53) Emotion Mindset, Anxiety; Good or Bad Emotions? (00:11:25)

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Protocols and Operating Manual for the Human Body

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It's my very first book. It's entitled Protocols and Operating Manual for the Human Body.

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