Resources

This resources page provides practical tools and information to support your emotional wellbeing journey.

These materials are designed to help you reflect, build awareness, and continue developing your emotional understanding at your own pace.

If you need additional guidance putting these resources into practice, you’re welcome to visit the bookings page to arrange a one-on-one session for deeper understanding and implementation.

Emotions and thoughts carry information.
They are not always facts, and they are not always the truth, but they do tell us something.

Rather than reacting to them automatically or pushing them away, the task is to slow down, listen, and understand what they may be pointing to.

Often, they are signalling something important: a need, a fear, a value, a wound, or something within us asking for attention.

The Steps Are Easy

1. Talk and express current difficulties - you can begin by talking to friends, family or journaling what is going on for you 

2.  Increase tolerance to what you feel - sitting with what you feel can be challenging, especially when the emotions are uncomfortable, try closing your eyes, and sitting with the feeling, focusing on what it feels like, where you feel it etc 

3. Identify feelings -what feelings come up for you when you talk about the current issue,  name it, if you don't know what you're feeling thats ok, try asking yourself "what does this feeling feel like", then try giving it a name 

4. Understand what those feelings need - what is this feeling trying to tell me, what is it trying to protect me from 

5. Support how you feel - what would make me feel better right now, can you think of a time when you did something to make this feeling feel better, what is within your control, what is not within your control and how can you still support yourself

Eventually, you'll get really good at this. You'll build an internal map, and semi-automatically understand yourself with much higher precision. You'll be able to feel an emotion, and quickly understand what it is that you need in REAL TIME, rather than wasting time trying to figure it out . 

The Steps Are Easy

1. Be aware of your thoughts - try and catch thoughts that enter and exit your awareness that might be linked to how you are feeling

2. Detach from your thoughts - just because a thought enters your awareness doesn't automatically make it true

3.  Categorise the thought- is this thought a fact or is it linked to how im feeling

4. Idenitfy underlying meaning - what is this thought trying to tell me or protect me from 

5. Link it to an underlying need - am i feeling unheard, unsupported, left out, etc

6. Support that need - what can you do right now to support that underlying need, think back to the Emotional Wellbeing Guide

Eventually, your thoughts won't consume you. You won't spend hours ruminating. You'll understand yourself. Your thoughts are singals, trying to point you towards an emotional need, which you are more than capable of supporting. 

Healthy relationships are built through communication. First, it is important to fully understand what you're feeling, and what you need. Then, it is important that you express both. I feel x, i need x. Crucially, the other person in the situation should do the same, otherwise, it doesn't work, and it is NOT your fault. Work towards a compromise, where both parties are satisifed with the outcome. This will depend on each persons need. 

These resources are free to use, share, and adapt. If you do, please acknowledge Emotional Wellbeing Support as the original source.

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