How many feeling words can you think of?
Most people can only name 3 big feelings: sad, mad, and glad, as Brené Brown mentioned in her research.
It turned out there is a correlation between the feeling vocabulary number and the capacity for emotional regulation and psychosocial well-being, according to Harvard psychologist Susan David. She found that the more accurately we can label our emotions, the better we identify and communicate our needs and get support from others.
People with an average of 30 words in their feeling vocabulary can distinguish a wide range of feelings and emotions and adapt to the ups and downs better than people who see everything in black and white.
Increasing our feeling vocabulary expands our capacity for resilience.
