What's ALIVE in You? Importance of Regulation and Co-Regulation

“Emotional agility is about loosening up, calming down, and living with more intention. It’s about choosing how you’ll respond to your emotional warning system.”

― Susan David, Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

We are all wired to connect, to feel, and to sense into what is "alive" in us. It’s how our species has evolved to survive.

Our ability to understand our emotions is an important life skill. Emotions help us to communicate with those around us and can move us to act. So understanding what we’re feeling helps us to dig deeper into our behaviours and choices and communicate what we want with more clarity.

But we can go further than just noticing and acknowledging how we feel.

We can develop “choicefulness” in how our emotions impact us, and learn how we can regulate those emotions in ways which are mature, healthy,…