What is Emotional Wellness?

When it comes to health and wellness, it typically embodies physical, mental, emotional, 
and behavioral wellness. This is what makes up your “health” and overall wellbeing. 
With emotional wellness, it is all about your emotions, feelings, and many of your 
thoughts. 

This includes how you handle your emotions after various events in your life and your 
ability to bounce back from challenges, as well as how much negative things in your life 
affect you. 

Here are some things to know about emotional wellness.


Emotional Strength, Resilience, and Intelligence

Emotional wellness encompasses your ability to handle stressful situations, showing 
how much emotional strength and resilience you have. This might look like:

Healthy ways of coping with stressful situations – A good sign of healthy emotional 
wellbeing is the ability to cope with stress in productive ways. As opposed to ignoring 
your emotions, turning to substances or other addictions, you can sit with your emotions 
and handle stress in a much healthier way.

Being a grateful person who chooses to focus on the positive – Someone who 
focuses a lot of their emotional wellness also tends to be more grateful and can 
appreciate all the small blessings in their life. Consider whether you focus more on the 
good things in your life, or the bad. 

Treats others with respect, and never judging their emotions – Allowing others to 
feel how they need to feel and express their emotions is an amazing sign of being 
emotionally healthy, mature, and intelligent.

Never judging your own emotions or feelings – Emotionally healthy people will also 
not judge their own emotions when they come up. This actually happens a lot more 
often than you might think.


The Impact of Your Emotional Wellness

While anyone can improve their emotional wellbeing, there are some signs of poor 
emotional wellness. Keep in mind this is completely normal and doesn’t mean you are 
“broken”. It simply means your emotional wellbeing is what you should be focusing most 
of your attention on. 

Some common signs that you need to work on your emotional wellness include:

Feeling shame or guilt for your own emotions or feelings
Ridiculing others for how they choose to express themselves
Turning to drugs, alcohol, or other addictions to hide from your emotions
Allowing toxic people to remain in your life
Giving too much of yourself to others with no personal boundaries
Having no healthy outlets for your feelings
As you can imagine, having these signs of poor emotional wellness can lead to a lot of 
negative consequences in just about every area of your life. This includes:

Issues with friendships and relationships
Problems with your job or co-workers
A weakened immune system
Unexplainable body aches and pains
Behavioral issues like irritability and moodiness
Problems with focus and concentration
Poor sleeping habits


Tips for Improving Your Emotional Wellness

If you want to start working on your emotional wellness, here are some places to start:

Learn How to Be Mindful

Mindfulness is really valuable when it comes to accepting and processing your 
emotions. If you have a tendency to either react immediately to how you feel, or 
completely hide from your emotions, then you need more mindfulness in your life. It 
allows you to really sit with your emotions, and understand where they are coming from, 
before reacting.


Use a Journal to Understand Your Thoughts and Feelings

It can be difficult to constantly live inside your head and make sense of your feelings 
and emotions. Get some of those thoughts onto paper so you can start working through 
your issues by writing in a journal every day. The clarity you gain is a wonderful step in 
the right direction toward better emotional wellbeing.


Communicate Openly With the People in Your Life

Open and honest communication is also really important. Emotional wellness isn’t just 
about your own emotions, but other people’s as well. This helps you to learn more 
empathy and sympathy, and to practice forgiveness when necessary.


