Emotional Wellness

Improving Emotional Wellness

The Emotional Wellness Dimension involves the ability to express feelings, adjust to emotional challenges, cope with life’s stressors, and enjoy life. It includes knowing our strengths as well as what we want to get better at, and living and working on our own but letting others help us from time to time. 1

Why is Emotional Wellness Important?

Emotional wellness allows you to accept how you are feeling. Once you accept your feelings, you can begin to understand why you are feeling that way, and decide how you would like to act in response to those feelings. Being emotionally well grants you the power to express feelings without any constraints. In turn, you will be able to enjoy emotional expression and be capable of forming supportive and interdependent relationships with others.2

1SAMSHA: Creating A Healthier Life, A Step-By-Step Guide To Wellness
2UCDAVIS:Intellectual Wellnesshttps://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/emotional</h6

Components of Physical Wellness

Feelings / Emotions
Self-Care
Stress
Emotions & Feelings
Stress
Self-Care