Sensory: A Focus on Interoception
Connecting to Emotions
Linking body signals to an associated emotion helps uncover the meaning of the body signal. Providing activities and strategies within this area can help youth to begin to connect their body sensations to what it means in their body.
Interoceptive Awareness (IA)
BODY
1. NOTICE body signals
EMOTION
2. CONNECT body signals to the emotion
ACTION
3. REGULATE body signals with an action
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Learn how to support youth to make connections between their body sensations and emotions.
Video: Strategies to Support Connecting to Emotions
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Activities
Connecting Body Signals
Review examples of using connecting statements when noticing body signals.
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Notice |
Connect |
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Youth places hand on her growling stomach before lunch. |
"Your stomach is growling, I wonder how that makes you feel?" |
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The morning the youth is starting a new school he tells you, "I feel like something is wrong, my heart is really pounding and my hands are sweaty". |
"That is how I feel sometimes, too. I wonder what that means for you?" |
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A youth receives a gift she did not expect with some favorite items, including several stuffed animals that she hugs as she begins to rock and jump. |
"I wonder what jumping and rocking means when you get a wonderful gift?" |
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On a hot day when playing at the park a youth’s play begins to be rougher, he is red-faced and sweating. You offer several bottles of cold water, and he drinks them quickly. After a few minutes he says, "My head felt funny before, but not now". |
"You were playing hard and sweating a lot. I wonder if your body needed more water. Can you tell me more about how your body felt then and now?" |
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Interoception Support: Strategies and Supports for Connecting to Emotions
Use this document to identify the types of activities and experiences that can support interoception by connecting body sensations to associated emotions.
