Red-Orange Emotional Control

44/100 Red-orange Emotional Control
Emotional Control feels like the twin sister to Response Inhibition to me. These are two separate things but they are so closely linked it is often hard to tell where one starts and the other stops. A lot of people lump these two Executive Function skills together and call them Self Regulation. Emotional Control is the ability to control your emotions in order to complete a goal or task. Someone who has this as a strength might be really good at not letting all the little day to day challenges derail them. They are also probably pretty good at managing their emotions, especially negative emotions, so they don’t overtake them. People who have this as a weakness might be described as someone who really feels their feelings or someone who has big feelings. In my learning about Emotional Control one thing I found really important is that people who have Emotional Control as a weakness are often able to keep control over their emotions in some places, like school or work, but at a cost. Keeping their emotions contained in one place may cause an emotional overflow when leaving that environment. For kids in particular Emotional Control can be a hard thing. I wrote yesterday about the movie “Turning Red” which was a great example on teaching kids to name and manage feelings, not try to get rid of them. For a lot of people who struggle with Emotional Control learning to name their feelings and then learning techniques that help them work through those feeling can be really helpful. The red orange line, 2nd row on the left in these portraits represents Emotional Control.
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