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Explore your emotions through journaling
Aife
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Naming the emotions we're feeling can be hard sometimes and we wanted to create a thread (a bit like the 'I need a hug thread'), inspired by an article written by one of our volunteers Sharvari, to help you identify how you're feeling and what you might need.
Why is understanding our emotions important?
Our emotions can be powerful and sometimes they might feel like a burden but each of our emotions are all really important. Sharvari describes them as 'messengers' as they are like our internal compass, helping us to figure out how a situation makes us feel. This then helps us make decisions about what we might need and want to help us cope with them and move past any difficult feelings we may be experiencing.
Follow the guidance we've written below to help you share how you're feeling. A friendly reminder to take a read of our community guidelines for guidance on how to post safely
Step 1:
Take a look at the emotion feeling wheel in the spoiler below. Find an emotion to describe how you're feeling.
Step 2:
Copy and paste the sentence below and use the emotion you found in the emotion feeling wheel to complete the sentence. Have a think about what would help you or what you feel you need right now.
I feel… [insert emotion from the feeling wheel]
Something that helped me before was....
To help me today, I need...
We hope you find this thread helpful
Why is understanding our emotions important?
Our emotions can be powerful and sometimes they might feel like a burden but each of our emotions are all really important. Sharvari describes them as 'messengers' as they are like our internal compass, helping us to figure out how a situation makes us feel. This then helps us make decisions about what we might need and want to help us cope with them and move past any difficult feelings we may be experiencing.
Follow the guidance we've written below to help you share how you're feeling. A friendly reminder to take a read of our community guidelines for guidance on how to post safely
Step 1:
Take a look at the emotion feeling wheel in the spoiler below. Find an emotion to describe how you're feeling.
Step 2:
Copy and paste the sentence below and use the emotion you found in the emotion feeling wheel to complete the sentence. Have a think about what would help you or what you feel you need right now.
I feel… [insert emotion from the feeling wheel]
Something that helped me before was....
To help me today, I need...
We hope you find this thread helpful
Maybe somethings don't get better, but we do. We get stronger. We learn to live with our situations as messy and ugly as they are. We fix what we can and we adapt to what we can't. Maybe some of us will never fully be okay, but at least we're here. We're still trying. We're doing the best we can. That's worth celebrating too ❤
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Hugging you back too tysm!
Sending hugs to you all as well
I feel… [insert emotion from the feeling wheel]
Something that helped me before was....
To help me today, I need...