Emotion Regulation: Top 10 Neuroscience-Backed Tools | Ethan Kross & Emma Seppälä

Manage anxiety, rewire your inner critic, and never worry alone.

Emma Seppälä, PhD is a psychologist and research scientist from Yale, and the author of two books, The Happiness Track and Sovereign.

Ethan Kross, PhD is a professor at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Institute for Mental Fitness. He is the author of two books, Chatter and Shift.

In this episode we talk about:

• What emotions actually are, and why even anxiety and anger serve a purpose
• Why self-criticism backfires, and what the research shows about self-compassion instead
• How chronic suppression makes your emotions stronger, not weaker
• Regulation tools you can use in the moment to shift emotional states

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