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Emotional Regulation in Hard Times

Some suggestions for emotional self regulation during hard times:

Create intentional PLANS and SCHEDULES to help organise your day and increase your sense of AGENCY and CONTROL.

Don’t be afraid to Make these plans VISUAL in a notebook or on a board.

Use MOVEMENT and CREATIVITY to allow your body to process stress as it comes: dance, tumble, paint, collage, bake, build Lego – what works for you?

 

Find ways to CONNECT with other people: use video chats, play board games with housemates, call a friend on the phone.
Don’t leave this to chance – be INTENTIONAL.

 

Use GROUNDING rituals and SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES – like journaling, breath work, meditation, gratitude exercises, etc – as well as acts of service and intentional choice to centre yourself and lean into love over fear. Remember that taking AGENCY – choosing to do something – is often the first step out of fear.

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About the program

In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.

Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!

After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.

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