You. Hello, Thrivers. This is Laura Monk with Thrive Therapy and Counseling. And in this podcast today, I wanted to talk about how important it is to self regulate and the importance of self regulating ourselves. And what do I mean by self regulating? Often when we get mad or upset about something, we usually tend to want the other person or the other people to do something different that will make us feel better or will somehow regulate our mood
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 4:55
Maybe it's good this person didn't show up to my party, because maybe something really bad would have happened if they'd shown up. So those are just some examples, and I hope that was helpful. Thank you for joining me in this podcast today. As always, take care of yourself and work on your self love, and I look forward to seeing you in the next one. Bye for now
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 3:00
I have a podcast that's titled 86,400 Minutes that's a good one to listen to about this. And we do this for ourselves, all right? Remember the phrase that when we hold on to anger, that is like drinking, poison ourselves and expecting the other person to die. When we are angry or livid or distressed or ticked off, for whatever reason, only person that we are really hurting is ourselves
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Laura Monk
@ThriveLauraMonk · 0:09
I meant to say 86,400 seconds, podcast. And I've linked that here so you can listen to that one as well
And my sister, who is often the person who helps me in regulating my emotions, like usually she's the person who listens to me and I try to work it out together, like I talk it out. Then I realized that what happened was my sister had went through a situation where she was in a bad place and she wasn't available to talk. And then we came up with this conversation where she said, candy, just think about it