This morning I’m in Orange County, CA on my way to Chicago from Missoula and, naturally, feeling a little emotionally dysregulated. I never used to like the term emotional dysregulation much, but now I think it’s pretty good. Among other things, relational disruptions, travel, and trauma can all produce a mix of emotions that might be aptly described as emotional dysregulation. Recently, I’ve had an experience where I find my response is relatively equal and shifting parts of excitement and anxiety. It’s not a terrible experience; I know there’s positive excitement in there somewhere. But sometimes it gets overshadowed by the anxiety.
Back to Orange County. The link below takes all the CASP participants (and other interested parties) to the “long form” of the presentation for today, which is quite surprisingly titled, “Tough Kids, Cool Counseling.”
John Sommers-Flanagan 
Gosh, lately Ive been feeling that mix of anxiety / excitement. Anxiety is pretty new to me – and this is of a particularly existential sort… is it age related? Political? A+B methinks. Greetings!
Or it could be that we’re unknowing participants in some sort of nefarious social-psychological experiment. A + B + C perhaps.