Wednesday’s Words of Wellness
— Sept. 23 —
Words of Wellness are resources for students to access and utilize to improve and maintain their overall wellness.
While the Wellness Center’s Counseling and Wellness Services are available Monday – Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for counseling, consultation, and referral needs, via phone or Zoom video sessions, we wanted to share additional resources that may be beneficial.
For Sept. 23, we will be focusing on emotions. Emotions surround us day in and day out. Sometimes our emotions are fleeting and only appear for a short period of time, while at other points, we find them lingering around and even seeping into various areas of our lives. Emotions can guide our behavior and decisions. They can also give us feedback about our perception of a situation or experience as positive or negative. The following resources include information that allow us to recognize and identify our emotions, as well as ways to manage and process these emotions.
Learning About Emotions
Emotion Reference Sheet
The Emotions Reference Sheet handout is designed to help recognize and talk about feelings. This handout is a simple but helpful resource that presents a list of emotions, along with common signs and behaviors that can help to identify them. This handout is a great reference when you are having difficulty describing how you are feeling. It also helps you connect an emotion to a behavior.
The Wise Mind
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) uses the concept of a reasonable, emotional, and wise mind to describe a person’s thoughts and behaviors. The reasonable mind is driven by logic, the emotional mind is driven by feelings, and wise mind is a middle-ground between the two.
In DBT, clients will learn skills to use their wise mind and better manage their behavior.
Wheel of Emotions
Plutchik’s wheel of emotions identifies eight basic emotions including joy, trust, fear, surprise, disgust, anger, and anticipation. Combinations of these basic emotions result in advanced emotions, such as optimism, love, submission, awe, disappointment, remorse, contempt, and aggression. This Wheel of Emotions diagram beautifully depicts the relationships between each emotion in the form of a spectrum.
List of emotions
Sometimes, you just need a long List of Emotions. This printout is just that. The 57 emotions listed on this worksheet range from simple (e.g. happiness, sadness) to advanced (e.g. inadequate, disdain). It can be helpful to have this worksheet handy when you are having difficulty verbalizing how you feel.
Managing and Processing Our Emotions
Write It Out — Journaling
Journaling is a tool of self-exploration and stress-management and can be therapeutic way to assist us in processing our emotions, connecting our feelings with our experiences, and to use as a way to catalog the happenings of our lives. Journaling is unique to the individual utilizing the exercise. Make journaling what you want it to be.
Reach Out and Connect
Sometimes emotions are too much for us to handle on our own. Reaching out to your supports can be beneficial in processing and managing your emotions. Connecting with a supportive friend, family member or mental health professional can have significant impacts on our emotional health.
Social support
Social support is the help provided by other people, such as family, friends, groups, and communities. The forms of assistance that are given through social support come in many forms, and have a significant impact on a person’s well-being. Benefits of social support include improved physical health, greater resilience to stress, a feeling of security, and more.
Finding and Creating Joy
TED Talk Where Joy Hides and Where to Find It – Ingrid Fetell Lee
Cherry blossoms and rainbows, bubbles and googly eyes: Why do some things seem to create such universal joy? In this captivating talk, Ingrid Fetell Lee reveals the surprisingly tangible roots of joy and shows how we all can find — and create — more of it in the world around us.
Where Joy Hides and How to Find It
Stay safe and well!
Counseling and Wellness Services Staff
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518-629-7320
counseling@hvcc.edu
Published: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 11:45:57 +0000 by k.weeks