Dysregulation Awareness
1. Social disconnection leads to dysregulation
• Fight (opposition): anger, impatience, controlling
criticism, defensiveness, etc.
• Flight (avoidance): overconsuming, overworking
overthinking, attention-seeking, etc.
• Freeze (inhibition): procrastination, indecision
withdrawal, fatigue, numbness, etc.
• Fawn (submission): overagreeing, overhelping
overflattering, overapologising, etc.
2. Dysregulation awareness leads to openness
• Humility: seeing dysregulation in ourselves
• Equality: seeing dysregulation in everyone
• Compassion: seeing dysregulation as pain
3. Openness leads to relational integrity
• Accountability: owning dysregulation
• Boundaries: limiting dysregulation
• Transparency: letting dysregulation be seen
4. Relational integrity leads to co-regulation
• Credibility: feeling trusted
• Dignity: feeling respected
• Belonging: feeling accepted
5. Co-regulation leads to self-regulation
• Balance: becoming more regulated
• Resilience: recovering faster from dysregulation
• Presence: offering deeper co-regulation
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