What Is This Feeling? is an engaging workbook created to help individuals better understand, express, and regulate their emotions. Designed to build emotional intelligence, this resource provides practical strategies and interactive exercises for recognizing emotions, expanding emotional vocabulary, and improving emotional regulation.
What’s Inside?
- Understanding Emotions: Explains the importance of recognizing and expressing feelings and addresses the common tendency to avoid or mask emotions.
- Emotional Vocabulary: A feelings chart and exercises help expand emotional vocabulary, allowing individuals to articulate their emotions more effectively.
- Recognizing Emotions: Prompts and reflective questions guide users to notice physical and emotional sensations, identify triggers, and explore their sources.
- Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors: Activities distinguish between these elements, fostering a deeper understanding of emotional responses.
- Regulating Emotions: Teaches techniques like deep breathing, self-soothing with the senses, and distress tolerance exercises (e.g., the “ice cube challenge”) to manage difficult emotions.
This workbook is ideal for individuals, educators, and counselors aiming to build emotional awareness and resilience. It provides a step-by-step approach to mastering emotional regulation and creating healthier relationships with oneself and others.
