Why do we have feelings and emotions?
Emotions 100
Emotions motivate us to take action.
Name 1 positive emotion.
Name 1 negative emotion.
Painful Emotions 100
While many people feel safe to express positive feelings, when they feel bad they don’t always want to admit or reveal how they feel. In fact, withdrawing, retreating, hiding, denial, and isolation, are all common responses to deeply felt emotional pain.
Do you find it easy to talk about emotions when you are feeling sad?
Therapy 100
It’s not always easy to describe how you’re feeling. You may do this at first in a disjointed way or through facial or physical expressions or sounds. You may discover that you feel many things at once, or nothing, or that you feel blank or numb.
How do you act when you are feeling stressed or sad?
Anxiety
How many times over the past week were you feeling anxious?
Scale 1-10
100
My family is different now, because…
Emotions 200
Emotions help us survive, do well, and avoid danger.
Have you heard of "fight" or "flight?"
Painful Emotions 200
Why do we avoid talking about the things that make us feel sad?
We do this for many reasons. Often, we don’t want to appear fragile or over-sensitive to others or admit our fragility to ourselves. People think that owning hurt or painful feelings makes them look weak or powerless to others.
Therapy 200
Feel less alone and know your true self
Through speaking aloud and being heard and understood with acceptance and empathy you break out of your isolation. By talking about your feelings and uncovering the emotions beneath them you get to know yourself in a deeper, more meaningful way.
Anxiety Triggers
What were your triggers this week for anxiety?
How did you manage them?
What could you have done differently to manage them better?
200
When I think about my family, I feel…
Emotions 300
Emotions help us make decisions.
Give an example of when you made a decision based on your emotions. (sad/happy)
Painful Emotions 300
We may also avoid talking about feelings because we are trying to suppress them. Perhaps they are too strong or painful or make us too uncomfortable.
Why do you think it is difficult for you to express yourself when you are feeling sad?
Therapy 300
Clarify what you are feeling.
If you are feeling many different things at once or feel very confused, talking out loud helps you to clarify what is worrying you. Speaking out loud also helps you work out what is most important to you and what you want to do abo
Difficulty in Therapy
Why might talking in therapy be difficult or uncomfortable for you right now?
300
Things I don’t like about the changes to my family are…
Things I do like about the changes to my family are…
Emotions 400
Emotions help other people to understand us and relate to us. Emotions are often clearly visible on a person's face, or in how they stand or walk or talk. So they serve as social signals. When other people see that we feel happy or sad they receive important information that will influence how they react to us.
Has anyone ever said to you, "you look really sad, what's wrong?" or "you look happy."
Painful Emotions 400
Common signs that you are suppressing emotions as a coping strategy include:
Can you relate to any of these?
Therapy 400
Take action.
Through clarifying you learn the deeper emotion that is beneath your feelings. Once revealed and integrated this can help you know yourself much more deeply and understand what is truly important to you. Then you are able to take action that is fundamentally in line with who you really are and what is most important to you.
Life before Covid
Tell me what your life was like before covid? What are somethings that you miss the most?
400
My biggest worry about my family is…
Emotions 500
Emotions help us understand others.
Emotions can let us know how others feel about us and we can use emotions to let others know how we may feel about them.
Painful Emotions 500
How can suppressing painful emotions affect your body?
Therapy 500
Putting things into perscpetive.
If you have been keeping things to yourself for a long time, a situation can seem much more overwhelming than it actually is. Talking about the situation and being supported to accept what you feel about it actually helps you manage and diminish the fear attached to certain feelings and situations.
What are some goals you have set in place for 2021?
500
My hope for my family is…