Increase your emotional vocabulary

Relates the size of one’s emotional vocabulary to their well-being, which makes augmenting one’s capacity as simple as learning new words to name feelings or internal states. Not dealing with emotions can manifest in health issues, including physical ones. Self-awareness can help bring things into perspective. Let’s break the stigma of being vulnerable and imagine a future where it’s easier to communicate our feelings.

[Having a small emotional vocabulary makes it easier to reduce situations with a broad brush.]

[People with larger emotional vocabularies tend to have less health issues.]

[Make the butterflies in your stomach fly in formation.]

[Categorizing as 'not about me' saves energy when you're down, and is useful when you're up to put the emotions in perspective (the result of social reality).]