Tonight we focused on emotional regulation. So important for the addict in recovery to learn. It takes a while to develop new skills and coping mechanisms in the early stages of the recovery. The self-regulation of emotion or emotion regulation is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed. Copy and pasted that, no idea what it means but it sounds smart.