Forgotten Feelings: Expressing Your Feelings Can Make You Healthier

Forgotten Feelings: How Expressing Your Feelings Can Make You Healthier

Expressing Feelings

I love that my boys are maturing into young adults. Don’t get me wrong, I still ache when I look at their baby pictures. I long for the days when they use to hold my hand. I miss cheering them on during their competitions. But, I also love that we are now communicating differently. They can express their concerns, their joys and their challenges in such a way that it allows us to connect on a deeper level. Also, expressing your feelings can make you healthier.

Forgotten Components

One forgotten component of overall optimal health is our emotional health. Our feelings have important implications for how we view ourselves, our relationships and the world around us. This ability to maturely face and express these feelings can help us to meet life’s challenges without becoming overwhelmed or hopeless and without the need to dominate and force those around us, and Expressing Feelings Can Make You Healthier.

Emotional Wellness emphasizes an awareness and acceptance of one’s feelings.  Beverly Beuermann-King Click to tweet

It includes the ability to adjust to the various obstacles one may encounter in life, the development of autonomy, the ability to realistically assess one’s limitations and the maintenance of satisfying relationships.

Signs of Emotional Wellness:

• Expressing your feelings and needs
• The ability to say ‘no’ to those things that are not apart of your priority without feeling guilty
• Being mostly happy and satisfied with the various aspects of your life and the relationships you develop
• Having several people in your life that you care about and can call upon when in need
• The ability to relax and to take care of your needs
• Feeling good about who you are

Beverly’s Hot 5 Tips for Achieving Emotional Health:

1. Recognize the types and strength of the various feelings related to situations
2. Develop a realistic attitude about what you and those around you can achieve
3. Take care of your physical health – get appropriate sleep, exercise and nutrition
4. Be respectful of other’s ideas, opinions and talents
5. Keep a sense of humour and learn to play

Beverly’s Tip For Building Resiliency, Expressing Your Feelings, and Celebrating Mental Health Awareness Week:

Expressing your feelings can make you healthier. Be realistic about others and yourself. By being aware of and accepting of your feelings, and by maintaining satisfying relationships, you will be one step closer to reaching your goal of optimal health

Contact Beverly about hosting a mental health workshop for your teams on how to prevent burnout in the workplace and other mental health training. Discover tips to deal with stress and encourage positive stress management techniques!

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If you have some strategies to share – comment on this posting!

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Additional Resources:

Emotional Wellness: Feelings Faced, Forced or Forgotten

Lessening The Anguish of Depression Through Supportive Workplace Conversations

Identifying Depression In Children

Children and Suicide

Causes and Screening For Depression – Can Stress Cause Someone To Experience Depression And How Can You Tell If It Is Depression?

Mental Health Week and Childhood Depression Awareness Day

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