“I am HAPPY!”) or processing hard feelings in a healthy way (i.e. While society teaches us those pleasantries, we are not doing ourselves any favors to actually help ourselves 1) properly name our feelings and, subsequently 2) honor our true feelings (i.e.

There is a lot of power in being able to properly identify your feelings.Īs humans, it is often challenging to identify exactly how we are feeling – even adults struggle with this! Think about this – when someone asks you how you are doing, how often do you say, “I’m good” or “I’m alright”.