5 Signs You Need to Work on Your Emotional Healing

Healing emotionally from traumas or any difficult situation you have gone through in 
your life can feel really overwhelming, but it is also important that you make it a priority 
in your life. This is where you will find your path to improved emotional wellness, as all 
that emotional trauma weighs heavily on you no matter what you do.


1. You Are Constantly Anxious or On Edge

One of the biggest signs that you need to work on your emotional healing is if you find 
yourself with a lot of anxiety, fear, or are generally on edge a lot of the time. Whenever 
you feel like your emotions are running high or like you can’t quite contain your anxiety, 
it is a good enough reason to consider what has been causing it. 

It might be that emotional healing is what you need, whether from traumas in your life 
that you never dealt with, or just healing your emotional wellness in general. 


2. Your Negative Emotions Overpower Your Positive Emotions

It is completely normal to have negative emotions, as we are not positive emotion 
robots. But what you really want is a balance between then. So, if the majority of your 
emotions or negative or pessimistic and it’s rare you feel good or positive about 
anything, you definitely want to consider some emotional healing.

You should not be living in a state of constant negativity and bad thoughts about 
yourself or your life. Whether it is about how you talk to yourself, your thoughts about 
your life or the future, or how you feel about other people, this is not normal and 
requires some healing.


3. You Have a Tendency to Overreact

Again, overreacting is a normal human reaction. But for some people, it is a sign of 
needing emotional healing, often closely linked to anxiety and stress. Overreacting can 
be any form of being extreme with how you react to a person or situation. It often goes 
far beyond just dealing with a stressful event. 

For example, if you run late to work and instead of just calling your boss to explain the 
delay or trying to get there as soon as you can, you get into an immediate and all-
consuming panic spiral, that is not a normal reaction. Doing this on a regular basis to 
just about anything that happens is an even bigger sign of needing emotional healing.


4. One Bad Thing Can Ruin Your Entire Day

Being able to process your emotions and handle stress is definitely a work in progress. 
It takes a lot of practice and patience to become this emotionally mature. However, if 
you are at a place where every small obstacle can completely ruin your entire day or 
longer, that is something to think about.

This could be something as small as your alarm not going off in the morning, to 
something more stressful like your car not starting and needing a jump. There are many 
events big and small that can put a damper on your mood, but when every single tiny 
bad thing that ever goes wrong causes you to basically just give up and assume your 
day is ruined, is a big sign of needing to work more on your emotional health.


5. You Get Poor Quality Sleep Most Nights

Sleep is important for your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing. If you aren’t 
getting good sleep, and can’t find any logical reason why, then it’s time to think about 
your current emotional state. Lack of sleep can be from many different things, not just 
physical ailments, but emotional needs as well. 

It might be from having more stress than usual, your anxiety peaking at night when 
you’re trying to rest, or not giving yourself enough time to actually get tired before you 
need to go to sleep. If you go to bed with your phone, you might be getting triggered by 
what you see on social media, also leading to poor sleeping habits. 

Emotional healing should be a priority in your life and taken seriously. Now is the time to 
start working on your emotional wellbeing.

