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Emotional Regulation Worksheet

Notice → Name → Understand → Choose

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Regulation isn't suppression. It's noticing the emotion early, naming it accurately, and choosing a response that fits — instead of one the emotion picks for you.

1. Notice
What happened (just the facts)
Where I feel it in my body
2. Name
Surface emotion (the loud one)
Underneath that — the softer one
Intensity 0–10
none
1
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10
most
3. Understand
What is this emotion trying to tell me?
What does it want me to do?
What does it actually need?
4. Choose
If I act on the urge, what happens?
An opposite or values-aligned action
One regulation skill I'll use right now

References & further reading

Conceptual background and further reading, not validation of this handout. Named instruments and methods belong to their original authors; custom prompts and trackers are not validated versions of those instruments.

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