06/20/2026
Another version of the feeling wheel that can be helpful to better understand emotions, name them, and be able to express them in a healthy way. It can be hard to share feelings with others if we don’t understand them or struggle to name them initially four ourselves. This is Something that can be learned and and along the way, used to improve our self-talk and relationship with ourselves as well as improve our communication with others.
Counseling is for everyone. 💙
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DBT Skills : Module : Emotion Regulation. Skill. Understanding Emotions.
Emotions are crucial in navigating everyday life. Many of life's problems can be resolved by better emotional awareness.
"I need a drink after that"
"The day I've had.."
"She made me so angry"
"He had such road rage .."
"It's like treading on eggshells coming home from
school/college/work''...
Emotional awareness is key to emotion regulation. Then not needing to change the way we feel with anger outbursts, unhealthy lifestyle choices :drink, drugs, feeding our feelings, overeating, spending, shopping, gambling, other forms of unhealthy ways of coping /self harm.
Most of us have a more than reasonable grasp on emotional literacy.
We know that we need the so called ' negative emotions' as much as the feel good 'positive emotions'.
If we've never experienced sadness then we wouldn't know joy.[ ie :the movie Inside Out and its sequel].
Yet still we go about our day, or many of us do - blaming external issues for rising levels of stress, overwhelm, reactivity.
DBT can really help us with this.
[Image credit : Brene Brown who adapted the seminal work of Wilcox, Plutchik & Zinker]
