Emotional Identification: 5 Proven Activities for Better Emotional Literacy

Writing or journaling can be a helpful tool for those who have difficulty identifying their feelings, particularly for people with alexithymia. Many individuals with alexithymia have an easier time accessing reflective emotions, which are emotions that are processed through our prefrontal cortex, compared to routine emotions, which are emotions tha

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Six steps to improve your emotional granularity: try on new perspectives, recategorize what you're feeling, talk about what you're feeling, move your body, improve your vocabulary, write about your experiences. 

good way to answer this question is in terms of your brain’s three operating systems. If you feel worried, tense, pushed on, or helpless, that triggers the avoiding harms system, so you’d be particularly helped by “resource experiences” related to this system, such as protection, safety, relaxation, strength, and agency. Sadness, disappointment, fr

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