Dr. Sue Futeral

01/01/2025

Self care gifts

01/01/2025

Anger

01/01/2025

New years

The new year doesn’t have to come with pressure to be perfect or suddenly achieve all the things. (Spoiler alert: you don’t have to be a ‘new you’ either.)

12/25/2024

Sending love

❤️❤️❤️❤️

12/18/2024

Love this

09/22/2024

❤️🌼❤️Christine…

09/22/2024

Bpd

09/15/2024

Thank you to everyone who offerred birthday wishes. Hubby took me and some friends up to Maine to Acadia, bar harbor and booth bay. It was so relaxing. At least my bd was a fun number this year. You know, 22!!!

09/15/2024

Music

The OT Toolbox ❤️

09/13/2024

09/11/2024

Emotional regulation and executive functioning skills are closely linked.

Executive functioning skills refer to a set of mental processes that help individuals manage their thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve goals. These skills include things like working memory, self-control, cognitive flexibility, and problem-solving.

Emotional regulation, on the other hand, involves the ability to manage and respond to an emotional experience in a way that is socially acceptable and within an individual's ability to cope. When emotional regulation is effective, it can positively impact executive functioning skills, and vice versa.

One way they are linked is through the prefrontal cortex of the brain, which is involved in both processes. The prefrontal cortex helps regulate emotions and is also responsible for many executive functions. This means that the same brain region plays a role in both emotional regulation and executive functioning.

Additionally, emotional regulation can directly impact an individual's ability to make decisions, solve problems, and control impulses—all of which are crucial components of executive functioning. When someone is better able to regulate their emotions, they may find it easier to concentrate, plan, organise, and adapt to changing situations, all of which are important aspects of executive functioning.

Conversely, when executive functioning skills are strong, individuals may more effectively manage their emotions and regulate their responses to difficult situations. Overall, effective emotional regulation and strong executive functioning skills often go hand in hand, supporting one another in everyday life.

Executive Function Checklist download available at https://thecontentedchild.co.uk/product/executive-function-checklist/

09/08/2024

Ptsd

❤️🌼❤️Christine…