How To Stay Emotionally Healthy With Others
On a scale of 1-10, comfortable are you with emotions? Emotions are what make you human. When you practice honest vulnerability in healthy and safe spaces, relationships grow! An emo check-in creates the opportunity to glimpse into each person’s current reality without judgment, share each other’s joys and sorrows, and extend care and compassion to those who are struggling.
How To Stay Emotionally Healthy With Others
Whether you’re doing an emotional check-in with your family around the table, with friends during a conversation, or with your team at work, offer 2 minutes to name 2 emotions and briefly share how each person is feeling and why. Are you feeling…
Sad, disappointed, invisible, low energy?
Angry, mad, anxious, overwhelmed, confused, alone?
Joyful, confident, peaceful, optimistic, hopeful?
The point of sharing is not to offer unsolicited advice or to “fix” someone’s emotions, but rather to be fully-present, listening well, and practicing what it means to truly be glad to be together in all circumstances. Normalizing, identifying, and sharing emotions is not only necessary for healthy processing and transparency, but also a sign of maturity. In other words, it is a way people grow individually and together!