Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You w/ Ethan Kross

Raising Good Humans

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🗓️ 31 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Emotions are a fundamental part of being human—but how do we help kids navigate them without rushing to fix or suppress their feelings? This week, we sit down with emotion regulation expert Ethan Kross, author of Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don’t Manage You, to break down the science of emotions and self-regulation. From handling anger and anxiety to fostering emotional resilience, this conversation is packed with practical tools and insights for parents and kids alike.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:09.4	Welcome to Raising Good Humans podcast.
0:12.3	I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman, and I'm so excited to share with you this episode with Professor
0:18.8	Ethan Cross.
0:20.3	He is one of the world's leading experts
0:22.8	on emotion regulation. He's a professor at University of Michigan. He is the director of the
0:30.5	emotion and self-control lab. He's also got a TED Talk that is coming out in just a few days, along with his phenomenal book,
0:41.0	Shift, Managing Your Emotions, So They Don't Manage You.
0:44.2	And today's conversation is so amazing, if I do say so myself, because he goes through the
0:51.4	research on managing emotions, but with every single area that we're talking
0:57.8	about, he gives concrete tools and language that we can use with our kids and all of the things
1:06.7	in the heat of the moment, what we can bake into our household so that we can kind of grow that
1:13.6	self-regulation muscle. It just is so rich and concrete. So I'm excited about it. And he's also,
1:24.6	of course, dispelling so many myths that we have around emotions. So I hope you
1:30.1	enjoy this episode. If you do and you are up for it, please don't hesitate and write that
1:38.3	five-star review on Apple Podcasts. It helps get it out there in the algorithm. And it's so awesome for me. And as always,
1:47.5	you can DM me on Instagram at Raising Good Humans Podcast. You can get my free newsletter on
1:54.2	Substack, Dr. Lisa Pressman.substack.com. And my own book, The Five Principles of Parenting, Your Essential Guide to Raising Good
2:03.6	Humans is always out there for you. I'm really excited about this one and I hope you get so
2:10.5	much out of it for yourselves and for your family. So I want to start with a fairly obvious question.
2:19.6	What are emotions?
2:22.5	So it's such an interesting question because it's actually not something that is easy to define.
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