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Labelling Feelings 101
Feelings: How do I feel about what happened and about the story I’m telling myself? A great way to name a feeling is to talk about where you feel it in your body.
Allison Fallon • The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life
If you need to get better at naming your emotions, the Center for Nonviolent Communication’s website has a fantastic list of feelings to describe what’s going on with you in a given moment, which might help you strengthen your emotional vocabulary.
Rachel Wilkerson Miller • The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People
The goal here is not to stop your amygdala from working completely (which would dramatically increase the chances of you being hit by a truck). Instead, it’s to recognise when an amygdala hijack is happening. This technique is called ‘affective labelling’. Put simply, it’s the act of putting your feelings into words, which forces you to identify an
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