Your Guide to 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 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.


Chapter 1. Understanding Your Emotional Wellbeing

Someone with good emotional health is able to handle their emotions, no matter what 
life throws at them. It does not mean you never experience stress or negative emotions, 
but that you have a much better coping mechanism and a better awareness of what you 
are thinking and feeling at any given time.


Signs of Good Emotional Health:

You Have Reached a State of Acceptance

People with good emotional health understand that their emotions change from day to 
day, but they don’t really judge any of them. If you have come to a place of accepting 
how your emotions change and what causes them, you are already on the right track to 
motional wellness.

Acceptance might look like realizing you are getting angry or upset about something, 
but instead of reacting to it or judging yourself or spiraling and getting even angrier 
about it, you can be calm and go inside to figure out what is causing the anger.


You Easily Adapt to Changes in Your Life

Adapting to change is challenging for most people on some level, but if you feel like you 
have been getting better at it lately, your emotional health could be improving. Many 
things can cause change in your life, from having to move jobs or your home, to simpler 
things like a friend moving out of town. 

When change happens, it takes a good amount of resilience in order to flow with these 
changes, which is another sign of a healthy emotional wellbeing.








You Can Analyze Your Own Feelings

Another sign of good emotional health is when you are able to analyze your feelings, 
without immediately judging or criticizing them. If instead of beating yourself up over 
how you feel, you simply get into a mindful state and consider where they came from, it 
is a really great sign.

Don’t be surprised if you find you do this without realizing it. Some people are naturally 
gifted at thinking about their feelings, because they are just more self-aware by nature. 
If this sounds like you, you already have a leg up with your emotional strength.


You Don’t Hold Grudges

Holding grudges is really not healthy for anyone, though sometimes it can be hard to 
avoid. Pay close attention to how you react when someone has wronged you, and how 
long you hold on to those negative emotions.

Holding grudges can sometimes feel safer, as negative emotions often feel like a 
comfort zone, even though you think the opposite should be true. But grudges never fix 
anything or solve any problems. All they do is create hostility in your life that damages 
your emotional health. 


You Have a Lot of Empathy

Empathy is where you are able to see something from another person’s perspective, 
and relate on some level. Even if you have not experienced it before, you can still 
empathize by trying to understand what they must be going through. 

The next time someone you know is dealing with something, examine how you react 
and what you think about it. Do you immediately judge them and wonder why they are 
making such a big deal out of it? Or do you feel empathy toward them, where you can 
see how that must be hard for them?


It is Easy For You to Set Personal Boundaries

Personal boundaries are incredibly important to your emotional health, but can also be 
challenging in the beginning. Setting personal boundaries allows you to set limits on 
what you can and can’t handle on an emotional level. 

It could just be your own boundaries with how often you use social media or what you 
engage in. In other cases, it is boundaries with other people who tend to have a 
negative energy that affects you. It might be learning to say no more often. Having 
personal boundaries that you are clear about is a great sign of emotional maturity.
You Have Excellent Problem-Solving Skills

If you are good at resolving issues and problem-solving instead of just going into an 
anxiety spiral, you have amazing emotional health and maturity. Knowing how to solve a 
problem isn’t always easy and it doesn’t come naturally to everyone. But it isn’t so much 
about intelligence or knowing everything, and more about how you react to obstacles 
and challenges, and what actions you choose or not take.


What Can Negatively Affect Your Emotional Wellbeing

Even after learning about your emotional wellbeing and getting various tips and tricks 
for improving your emotional wellness overall, there might still be some factors in your 
life that are affecting your emotions in a negative way. Here are some things to be 
careful of when it comes to your emotional wellbeing.


How You Think About Yourself

Even when you treat others with kindness and compassion, if you don’t treat yourself 
just as kindly, then your emotional health can suffer. What you think about yourself at 
any given time is important, and it can hurt or help your emotional wellbeing. If you 
constantly think bad things about how you look, what you can accomplish, things you 
regret or any of your actions, you are harming your emotional health. It is the same 
thing as if you were being bullied by someone else, but worse because you are doing it 
to yourself. 

This self-sabotage needs to come to an end if you want to improve your emotional 
health and mindset. Start thinking positively about yourself. Whenever you have a 
negative thought, try to challenge it with a positive one.


Your Self-Talk

In addition to those thoughts, you have about yourself, the way you talk to yourself can 
also have just as big of an impact. Be careful about your internal dialogue, as this can 
sometimes be so subtle, you don’t even realize you’re doing it.

When you have those conversations in your head, whether talking to yourself or 
imaginary conversations with other people, it includes self-talk. If you are talking to 
yourself through first or third person in a bad way, assuming something negative about 
yourself, you are harming your emotional health just as much as with thoughts you have 
about yourself. 

If you struggle with positive self-talk, just start with some affirmations. Simple “I am” 
affirmations, even if you don’t believe them yet. 

I am confident.
I am beautiful.
I am strong.
I am capable.
I am chosen. 


Relationships and Friendships

The friendships and relationships you have in your life have a big impact on your 
emotional wellness, both good and bad. The supportive people in your life are the 
friends who are always there for you, who listen, and who never judge you for how you 
feel or what emotions you express to them. These people improve your emotional 
health so much and are something to be grateful for.

But there are also some bad apples. Toxic friends don’t always know they are toxic, but 
they can have a negative impact on your life and your mindset. People who don’t let you 
express yourself, who are constantly judging you, who never offer emotional support. 
You might love these people, but if they are bringing you down and making you feel or 
think badly about yourself, they are not worth being in your life at this time.


Your Environment

Your emotional wellbeing can also be negatively impacted by your environment, which 
includes your home and work environment. This not only includes the people who are in 
your work and home environment, but how organized it is, and the feelings it creates 
within you.

If you had a bad experience in your home, and a certain area of your home always 
brings those emotions back, then you might need to make a change. You can’t just 
move because of it in most cases, but you can switch up that space. Decorate it 
differently, mov furniture around, do something that keeps you from creating this 
connection between your home and your negative emotions.


Judgment, Criticism, Shame, and Guilt

These are the negative emotions you really want to start working on getting rid of your 
mind. These are the most toxic thoughts you could have, and also some of the most 
common. What has happened in the past, is in the past. You can’t go back and change 
it; you can only move forward and deal with it. So, all those feelings of guilt and shame 
and resentment are pointless. They aren’t helping you or anyone else, and they aren’t 
erasing that situation from your memory. 


How Your Emotional Wellbeing Affects Different Parts of Your Life

Your emotional wellbeing encompasses how you think and feel, how you process your 
emotions, and the way in which you adapt to unforeseen circumstances and stressful 
events. The strength of your own emotional wellbeing can affect not just your emotional 
and mental state, but many other areas of your life as well.


Your Mental Health

Naturally, the first area of your life that your emotional wellbeing affects is your mental 
state. This goes beyond just how you feel on an emotional level, but actually affecting 
your mental health and any mental disorders you might have.

If you aren’t working on your emotional health and either have bad habits to cope with 
your uncomfortable feelings, or you are avoiding them entirely, mental disorders like 
depression and anxiety can start to get worse. You might notice more panic attacks or 
worsened depressive episodes. This is serious and should not be taken lightly.


Your Physical Health

It can also affect your physical health a lot more than you might think. Consider what 
happens when you are dealing with a lot of stress. It might be caused by emotional 
circumstances, but it is your physical body that feels a lot of the effects. 

When you deal with a lot of emotional stress, do you feel it in your mind, or your body? 
You might initially feel that overwhelming stressed out feeling that causes a lot of fear 
and anxiety. But then, your body takes over. Your body’s response to stress might be a 
headache, stomachache, diarrhea, aches and pains, neck pain, and so much more. 

By working on your emotional health and your ability to work through your emotions, 
you are also improving your physical health and reducing all of these discomforts. 


Your Job and Work Environment

With poor emotional wellbeing, your job and work can suffer quite a bit. Most emotional 
challenges you face, when not dealt with properly, can cause a lack of motivation, 
focus, and concentration. This eventually leaks over into your job performance, reducing 
output and quality. 

Whether you work for yourself or another company, it can put your career at risk. Even if 
your job is safe, it makes it a lot harder just to get through your workday, and you are 
putting all this added pressure on yourself without a good reason. 

By working on your emotional health, you really help to reduce the negative side effects 
with your job and your work environment. The relationships you have with your 
colleagues and co-workers can be improved, you enjoy going to work, and even have 
fun on the commute. It is all in your perspective, which starts with your emotional 
wellbeing.


Your Home Environment

In addition to your work environment, your home environment might also begin to suffer. 
This includes your personal relationships and friendships, and the environment in which 
you spend all your free time outside of work. If you wake up every day stressed out or 
unable to deal with your emotions, how does the rest of your day go? Probably not 
great. 

You start falling behind in personal obligations, barely taking care of yourself, neglecting 
household duties, canceling plans with friends, and so much more. You need to put 
yourself first, which starts with your mindset and how you talk to yourself. It includes 
how you process your emotions and what kind of resilience and mental strength you 
have. 

This is all important and should never be taken for granted. Start with small steps as 
you work toward improving your emotional wellbeing. It doesn’t need to be 
overwhelming or complicated. Just one small thing at a time. 


What is Emotional Intelligence?

When someone is emotionally intelligent, they aren’t just emotionally strong and 
resilient, though that can be a big part of it. There are many things involved in emotional 
intelligence, including being connected with your own thoughts and feelings, accepting, 
and regulating your emotions, and understanding more about your own emotional state. 

Here is a look at what emotionally intelligent people do. 



They Think About Their Feelings, Instead of Immediately Reacting

Someone who is emotionally intelligent is really good at thinking first about their feelings 
and analyzing them, instead of just immediately reacting. It is tempting and often much 
easier to just react first without putting too much thought into it. 

It can feel like if you just do something immediately, it softens the blow of how the event 
affected you on an emotional level. But this only prolongs your suffering and makes it a 
lot harder to deal with. While it can be more challenging to really soak in those feelings, 
it is healthier for you in the long run.


They Accept and Understand Their Own Feelings

In addition to being able to take a pause and sit with their emotions, someone who is 
more emotionally intelligent and mature can also understand their feelings a little more. 
Even getting to a place of acceptance over how they feel. 

You might think you understand why you feel the way you do, but unless you are giving 
yourself time and space to really acknowledge them and sit with them, you might be 
surprised by what your own internal dialogue can reveal.


They Don’t Judge Others for Their Feelings or Emotions

Another sign of having more emotional maturity is being able to understand and accept 
how other people feel, without judging them or reacting in a negative way. Emotionally 
intelligent people have a better understanding of their own emotions, which makes it 
easier to empathize with how other people might be feeling. It doesn’t mean you have to 
just agree with other 100 percent of the time, but trying to see things from their 
perspective does make a huge difference in how you react to others. 


They Have Good Empathy and Deep Understanding

Being empathetic is a wonderful quality that makes you a more sensitive person when 
dealing with others, but it doesn’t always come naturally. However, it does tend to be 
more common among people with higher emotional intelligence.

Empathy does not mean you feel sorry for someone, but that you can just understand 
them a little more, even relate to them on some level. You can see someone suffering 
emotionally, and understand why, instead of criticizing them for it.




They Don’t Surround Themselves With Toxic People

Toxic people can be strangers, co-workers, your best friend, even your parent. They 
don’t usually set out to be toxic influences in your life, but can bring down your energy 
and act as energy vampires. When you are emotionally intelligent, you are able to spot 
them and typically spend less time with them, so all the drama and pessimism doesn’t 
rub off on you.

It’s not always possible to avoid every toxic person in your life, but with more emotional 
maturity, you can spot the people draining your mental energy and set some personal 
boundaries with them.


They Have Amazing Self-Awareness

Lastly, emotionally intelligent, and mature people are also very self-aware. They know 
who they are, what they want, their strengths and weaknesses, what triggers their 
emotions, and why they feel how they feel at any given time. The more self-aware you 
are, the less stress you experience and the more resilience and emotional strength you 
will have.


How to Make Your Emotional Health a Priority

Your emotional health should be a top priority in your life, so if it tends to be the last 
thing you think about, that is a big sign that you are standing in your own way. Your 
emotional wellbeing is how you cope with stress, it shows how mentally strong and 
resilient you are, it allows you to focus on healthier ways to cope with your emotions. 

If you are someone who tends to have their entire day or week ruined because of one 
bad thing happening, then strengthening your emotional health definitely needs to be at 
the top of your list for things to work on.


Understand the Benefits of Good Emotional Health

If you want to make your emotional health a priority in your life, you need to first 
understand why it is so important. With good emotional health, you can benefit in the 
following ways:

Build up your resilience – Resilience is how you bounce back when struggled or 
complications enter your life. While you can’t avoid these, you can control how you react 
to them by building up your resilience.

Process your emotions in a healthier way – The way you accept and process your 
emotions makes all the difference when it comes to your emotional health. With better 
emotional wellbeing, you are able to process your emotions instead of hide from them.

Have better confidence and self-esteem – With more confidence, you know you can 
get through anything. This is a wonderful benefit of good emotional health and one that 
improves nearly every area of your life.

Improve your relationships – You can also have better relationships in your life with 
better emotional maturity, including friendships and romantic relationships.

Feel happier and more fulfilled – Finally, you will notice that when your emotional 
wellness improves, so does your happiness. You suddenly feel more contentment in 
your life, and can really focus on gratitude instead of lack.


Take More Moments to Yourself

Putting yourself first and making your emotional wellness a priority really requires you to 
have more time to yourself, whether this is taking a break, practicing self-care, or just 
taking a few minutes to feel your feelings.

This can be considered a form of self-care, as you are putting yourself first and making 
yourself a priority. Your emotional health is really important, but it so often gets put 
aside. While taking care of your life, your finances, your relationships, and your physical 
body is important too, you can actually improve all of that by working on your emotional 
and mental wellbeing.


Start Acknowledging and Processing Your Own Emotions

This might be a more challenging one, but it is essential that you learn healthy ways to 
cope and to process your emotions. Stop hiding from them and pushing them aside. 
Stop judging how you feel, and just accept it. 

To process your emotions in a healthy way means to acknowledge and work through 
them. Be clear and honest with yourself about why you feel that way, whether it is 
irrational or not, and what you can do about it. Use your problem-solving skills to come 
up with a solution instead of reacting negatively or using substances and the bad habits 
to hide from how you feel.






Work on Your Self-Esteem and Confidence

As you continue on your emotional healing journey, you will come to a place where you 
need to focus on your confidence and practice more self-compassion. This is life-
changing when it comes to making your emotional health a priority. The way you treat 
yourself and how you think about yourself can pave the way toward a healthy 
relationship with your mind and your body.


Get Regular Exercise

Exercise isn’t just good for your physical health, but your emotional and mental health 
as well. As you move your body and get more exercise, you are improving your mood 
by releasing endorphins. It can also give you more energy to focus on important things 
in your life, and make you feel happier overall.




2. A Deep Dive Into Emotional Wellness

Here is a deeper, more in-depth look into emotional wellness and wellbeing.


How to Validate Your Emotions

We often talk about how the only person who we should focus on validating us is 
ourselves, but rarely explain how to actually do that. Validating your own emotions is 
coming to a place of accepting them. Where you notice what your emotions are and you 
never judge yourself for having them. This self-validation can be really healing for you 
emotional wellbeing.


Be Mindful

In order to validate your emotions, you first need to understand what they are, why you 
feel that way, and rally just accept them. You will see mindfulness mentioned a lot when 
it comes to emotional wellbeing because of how valuable it is for your mindset and how 
you process your emotions.

When you are mindful, you are present in yourself and in your thoughts and feelings. 
You aren’t judging how you feel, but you are accepting of it, and that alone is validating 
your own emotions. It can be an important part of changing how you view yourself and 
what emotions you experience during different moments of your life.


Never Judge How You Feel

Just like when you validate someone else, you don’t want to place judgment on your 
own emotions. This can be hard sometimes when you feel like they are being intrusive 
on your mind or your life, but it is really important to find a place of acceptance without 
criticism. 

Any time you experience an emotion or feeling that makes you uncomfortable or that 
you don’t want, give yourself a couple minutes to just think about it. Ask yourself why 
you feel that way, what triggered that emotion, if you have felt that way before, and what 
you did previously to cope with this emotion.

By doing this exercise, you learn how to acknowledge your emotions for what they are 
and validate them, instead of placing judgment.





Encourage Yourself

You don’t need validate or encouragement from others! You are the best person to 
encourage and motivate yourself. You can be your own best friend, your cheerleader, 
the one who gives you unconditional love and support. Continue encouraging yourself 
and showing yourself how much you can accomplish.

Think of all your challenging experiences before now, and how you overcame them. Get 
honest with yourself about how strong and powerful you are, and how much you can 
actually overcome in your life. This alone should prove that you deserve to encourage 
and support yourself every step of the way.


Accept Your Emotions 

Accepting your emotions or how you feel is not the same thing as wanting to continue 
feeling that way. It is simply you being in a state of acknowledgement that it’s how you 
feel right now, and the understanding that it’s temporary.

People often feel that acceptance is the same thing as forgiving and forgetting, but it’s 
not. It is closely tied with being mindful and understanding your emotions, so that you 
can come to a place of recognition and know that soon they will pass. 


Use Positive Self-Talk

Stop talking bad about yourself, even in your own thoughts. Your internal dialogue is 
running constantly all day and night, and you might notice that it is often negative when 
thinking about yourself. Whenever you have a moment to yourself, think about where 
your thoughts go. What is the dialogue in your head? What are you thinking about 
yourself? When you have those internal conversations with other people, what scenario 
are you seeing? What is that person saying about you? What are you saying about 
yourself? 

Try to shift these to more positive thoughts. One at a time, begin acknowledging when 
you talk badly about yourself, and then shift it to say something positive about yourself. 
The more you do it, the easier it becomes.









How to Protect Your Emotions

Protecting your own emotions is incredibly important, and far too often overlooked. 
People have no problem protecting their homes, vehicle, and even their own physical 
body. But they don’t consider protecting their own emotions and emotional health. 

Here are some easy ways you can start protecting your emotional wellbeing and mental 
state. 


Set Your Personal Boundaries

Set clear personal boundaries with anyone in your life, from friends and family members 
to colleagues and even your neighbors. Know what you can handle emotionally and 
what you can’t. A good way to figure out what personal boundaries you need to set is 
thinking about what tends to trigger you.

When you feel particularly upset or defensive, what causes it? Is there a situation or a 
person that leads to it? Is it from your social media use? Does it have to do with people 
putting pressure on you to do something when you have other things to focus on?

Make a list of everything you notice that tends to trigger your fragile emotional state, 
where you experience any feelings that are uncomfortable for you, and then start 
creating personal boundaries to avoid those as much as possible.


Recognize Toxic People in Your Life

Toxic people are sometimes very obvious, but most of the time, it is extremely subtle, 
and you don’t recognize how much they are taking from your positive energy. A toxic 
person can be a co-worker who gossips all day and constantly interrupts your work. It 
can be a friend who you have known for a long time, but never seems to respect you or 
acknowledge your feelings. It can someone in your life who doesn’t respect your 
personal boundaries and is constantly pushing you, causing you to be angry with them. 

Toxic people come in all forms, and it takes a while to start noticing them. But once you 
do, you will see what a negative impact they have on your life and your emotional state.


Recover and Rest When it is Needed

Make sure you are giving yourself adequate time to rest and recover whenever you 
need it. This can help you avoid burnout and will help tremendously when it comes to 
protecting your own emotions. If you don’t give yourself enough time for rest, you will 
experience burnout and exhaustion, and will never have the opportunity to process what 
you are going through. 

It can be as simple as going to sleep a little earlier or taking a micro nap during the day 
when you have 5-10 minutes to spare. You don’t have to take a week-long vacation just 
to recover. 


Get Away From Your Normal Routine

Sometimes what you really need for emotional protection is to get out of your comfort 
zone and do something different. When you keep doing the same thing over and over 
again, you tend to feel the same types of feelings over and over again as well. This 
cycle might feel comfortable and predictable because you know what to expect. But you 
aren’t really learning or experiencing anything.

To protect your emotions, requires building up your resilience. You can only do that 
when you occasionally get out of that comfort zone and try something new. This can 
feel scary because you never know what to expect, but it is going to build that emotional 
strength tremendously. 


Pay Attention to Negative Influences

A negative influence is sometimes people, but it can really be anything that negatively 
affects your own emotional state. This might look like social media, going to certain 
places where you don’t feel comfortable, people who tend to be energy vampires, and 
anything else you don’t think serves you. 


How to Become More Resilient

To be more resilient means you are able to bounce back much faster and easier from 
any struggle in your life. With more resiliency, you can recover from anything that life 
throws at you, regardless of how bad it is. Here are some tips for becoming more 
resilient.


Improve Your Problem-Solving Skills

If you want to be more resilient, the first thing you need to do is learn how to solve 
problems in a more efficient way. Problem-solving might not come naturally to you, 
especially if you have grown up with the mindset that you’re not good at it. But it really 
only takes a few strategies to work through your own challenges, which will then make 
you more confident and resilient moving forward. 



Some tips include:

Be creative when working on a new solution to a difficult problem. Can you take 
another path? Is there something new you can try?

Do your research. Make sure you have really looked through all your options before 
getting stressed out or giving up on something. 

Work with others. Find support from friends and family, ask a colleague, reach out to 
someone who specializes in this area. 

Use your emotions to your advantage. Look at your feelings and emotions as a 
superpower. Use them to your benefit, let them guide you to the right solution. Don’t 
fear them or hide from them. Embrace them. Your emotions come from your own mind, 
and they often have the answers you’re looking for.


Learn How to Be More Mindful in Any Situation

Being mindful is an amazing skill when it comes to being more resilient and bouncing 
back from challenges in your life. When you practice mindfulness, you stay in the 
moment, never judging your thoughts or feelings, but just acknowledging them for what 
they are.

Now is the perfect time to start practicing being more mindful. If you’re not ready to be 
mindful during the more difficult challenges in your life, just start small and simple. The 
next time you eat a meal, sit somewhere quiet, turn off your phone and TV, and just 
focus on your food. Focus on the colors, the tastes, the textures, the temperature, the 
flavors. Really get lost in the experience and focus on each detail. 

This is all mindfulness really is. It is being present in the moment, paying attention with 
no judgment, and accepting that this is what the current moment is. That’s it. 


Prioritize Yourself with Self-Care

Self-care should always be a priority in your life as it is how you show yourself that you 
are loved and valued, but it can be especially useful when it comes to being more 
resilient. It is a way to put yourself first and have more self-love and confidence, which 
in turn can help you to build up that internal strength for tackling any hardship in your 
life.




There is no right or wrong way to do self-care. It can be any type of activity that you 
enjoy doing, that is only for you, and that makes you feel good. It can be pampering 
yourself, taking a long shower or bath, going for a walk, taking a nap in the middle of the 
day, cooking yourself a good meal, reading a book, playing with your dogs, really 
anything that feels special to you. If it feels good and is a way to make yourself a 
priority, then it’s beneficial to you.

Why does this help you become more resilient? You are teaching yourself that you are 
important. That you can do anything. The better you treat yourself, the more self-
compassion you have, and the more confident you become. This is an amazing cycle 
that helps you build your emotional strength allowing you to accomplish anything.


Remember How Far You Have Come

When you feel like you aren’t bouncing back fast enough, think for a minute on all you 
have already accomplished. You have likely gone through many obstacles and 
challenges in your life. How did you get through them? It takes strength and resilience 
to get as far as you have, no matter where in your life you are. 

Life isn’t always easy, and it loves to throw curveballs at you every time you feel 
comfortable. But you don’t need superpowers to handle it. All you need is a little 
confidence, reassurance, and that internal strength you already have to be resilient.

Healthy Ways to Process Your Emotions

Processing your emotions is not about ignoring your emotions or trying to get rid of and 
change them. It is simply a way to acknowledge how you feel, consider them, and figure 
out why you feel that way. 

Every human being has a wide range of emotions at any given time, but we are often so 
afraid of them, that we hide them away and distract ourselves with other things. But for 
better emotional wellness, you really need to learn how to sit with your emotions and 
process them.


Sit With Your Emotions for a Minute

An easy way to begin processing your emotions is to just sit with them. What does this 
mean? In the literal sense, just sit for a moment and consider what your emotions are, 
allowing yourself to feel them fully.

This might seem overly simplified, but it is actually harder for people to grasp than you 
might think. Your natural reaction as a human being is to react immediately to any 
extreme emotions. Fear, sadness, anger, even happiness can all create this desire to 
react to it. 

Sometimes you react by lashing out, sometimes you react by immediately hiding from 
that emotion and eating junk food or drinking alcohol or participating in another bad 
habit. 

But if you can just sit for a few minutes and acknowledge your emotions, you will be 
able to process them in a much healthier way.


Acknowledge Your Emotions at Any Given Time

This is closely linked to mindfulness, where you try to stay present in the moment and 
just acknowledge your emotions and feelings, and what might have caused them. You 
will do this while you are sitting with your emotions, but it’s not always immediately after 
you experience them. 

Sometimes, you find that your emotions are tied to something from the past that keeps 
coming up. It is just as effective in these circumstances. Think about what you are 
feeling and what emotions it is bringing up. Consider what you were doing previously or 
what you were thinking about to bring up these emotions. 

Sometimes, coping is just acknowledging and accepting that this is how you feel right 
now, but you might not feel like this later. 


Work Through Them with Journaling

For a more actionable step, you can process your emotions by working through them in 
your journal. Many people find that writing things down is a much more effective way at 
acknowledging and processing their emotions. You might not even realize all the 
feelings you have until you start writing down what is on your mind.

What often happens is one thought leads to the next, and then the feelings start coming 
up. The more you write down, the more you think about and can actually gain clarity 
about. It is a really surprising and moving experience when you allow yourself to do this 
in a safe, open, and honest environment. 


Change Your Story

You are the author in your own story, and you are the only person who can really 
change it. Nobody else is in control of how you think or feel except you, which means 
your emotional wellbeing is also all up to you. While others might have some impact on 
how you feel, they can’t change it for you and they can’t validate your emotions. 

You can change your story right now by processing your emotions in a healthy way. 
You can create a happy ending in your life by changing your mindset and having more 
self-compassion and learning how to accept your own emotions and feelings.


Address Your Other Basic Needs

Lastly, don’t forget about the most basic needs you have each and every day. By 
making these a priority even in the most stressful of circumstances, you will be able to 
process any emotions you are dealing with. Even when you’re feeling bad and 
struggling with processing those feelings, just go for a walk, take a shower, eat a meal, 
adhere to your basic needs and you will start feeling better.


Affirmations to Help Calm Your Mind

Calming and relaxing your mind really should start in your subconscious. It is what you 
tell yourself throughout the day through your various thoughts and feelings that will have 
the largest impact. If you want to tap into your subconscious mind, using affirmations is 
a great way to start doing that. 


Why You Should Use Affirmations

Before getting into some of the affirmations that can be useful for you, let’s talk about 
the benefits of using affirmations in the first place. 

Affirmations work by tapping into your subconscious and reprogramming your thoughts. 
You are likely aware of most of your thoughts in your conscious mind, but your 
subconscious mind is trickier to control. This is where a lot of your confidence, self-
esteem, and love for yourself comes from, which is why so many people use 
affirmations to reprogram their subconscious mind to think positive thoughts about 
themselves. 

For your emotional health and to calm your mind, affirmations work by helping you to 
get into a relaxed state, and staying calm through any unexpected event that would 
have otherwise made a very big impact on your mindset. 

This is why it is important to choose affirmations based on what you are trying to 
accomplish. In this case, they should be about your mindset, calming and relaxing you, 
reducing stress, reducing anxiety, and your emotional wellness in general.





How Affirmations Can Help Your Anxious Mind

If you have an anxiety disorder or simply experience a lot of anxious thoughts, 
affirmations are going to be an amazing tool for you to use. 

With anxiety, a lot of those fearful thoughts are irrational, and come from your 
subconscious mind. It can be harder to deal with your triggers when you have anxiety, 
and the more panic attacks you experience, the worse they seem to get over time 
because the fear of them worsens with each one.

This is a vicious cycle to get caught up in. But if you have anxiety, you can use 
affirmations to reprogram your subconscious and improve your mindset overall to 
reduce how anxious thoughts affect you.


Types of Affirmations for Emotional Wellness

There are many affirmations you can use for emotional wellness, and it really comes 
down to what you are trying to accomplish. Here are some different examples:

I am calm and relaxed.
I am courageous.
I fear nothing.
My mind is at peace.
I am filled with love and light.
I love myself unconditionally.
I choose to be at peace. 
I can handle anything.


Ways to Use Your Affirmations

Now that you have a good list of affirmations and understand the benefits of using them, 
here are some tips for how to actually use your affirmations:

Write them down in your journal – A great way to use affirmations is by writing them 
down each day in your journal. Start with the ones you want to use to reprogram your 
subconscious mind, then write those down each day, as many times as you need to. 
Over time, you will memorize them and won’t need to write them down anymore.

Keep them somewhere visible – The more you repeat your affirmations, the more 
effective they will be. This is why it is a great idea to have them around your house in 
visible places. Put them on sticky notes and place on your bathroom mirror, your desk, 
your dresser, your refrigerator, anywhere you know you will see them often.

Have them in your purse or wallet – You might also need some of your affirmations 
when you are not at home, so it is a good idea to have a list of them with you. 
Whenever you are feeling anxious or you just need something to calm down, take out 
your affirmations and read them out loud to yourself. 


Types of Emotional Self-Care

When it comes to self-care, most of the activities you probably have in mind help more 
with your physical body. These might include taking a bubble bath, getting a massage, 
doing a face mask, or any other form of pampering for your body. But there are so many 
ways to practice self-care more for your mind and emotional health. 


Protect Your Energy

One of the most important things you can do for yourself when it comes to emotional 
self-care is protecting your energy. Consider the people who are around you on a 
regular basis, and how you feel during and after spending time with them. 

If you discover friends or colleagues that make you feel exhausted, like your energy has 
been depleted just from a conversation with them, they are likely energy vampires. 
These are toxic people who will take all your positive energy and leave you feeling 
emotionally drained. 

Now is a good time to start spending a little less time with these types of people.


Ground Yourself

Grounding is a wonderful practice that not only helps you feel more connected to the 
Earth, but also more connected to yourself. The simplest and most effective way for 
grounding is to go outside and put your bare feet in the natural earth’s surface. Standing 
on dirt or grass outside is really healing and soothing. You will notice the effects almost 
instantly if you are mindful during this process. It can be done at a park, forest, while 
hiking or going for a walk.

Another option is to put your bare feet in sand, such as at the beach. You might also 
want to go into water, like the ocean, lake, or river. Even being in your own shower can 
be really grounding and soothing for your mind. Some other grounding options include 
drawing, reading, listening to music, or any mindful activity that helps you feel centered.





Use a Journal for Self-Reflection

A very simple self-care practice for your emotional and mental wellbeing is to write in a 
journal. There are many ways to journal, and they are all beneficial for you, but for 
emotional self-care specifically, self-reflection and clarity is really important.

Journaling for self-reflection is when you journal your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. 
Really dig deep to consider how you feel at any given time, what your primary thoughts 
are, what challenges you are dealing with, and just how you notice your moods and 
emotions shifting.

The more honest you are during this process, the more self-reflection and self-
awareness you will discover. 


Allow Yourself to Rest

Something as simple as taking a little 20-minute nap in the afternoon when you’re tired 
or going to sleep earlier can be considered self-care. Your body and your mind both 
need rest. If you get burned out by working too much or simply don’t allow yourself 
enough time for sleep, both your body and your mental state will react badly. It can 
make emotional stress much more severe, and make it extremely difficult to improve 
your emotional wellbeing.

An easy way to start resting more is make a daily goal of allowing yourself just 15-20 
minutes in the afternoon to do whatever makes you feel restful. This can be a micro 
nap, sitting somewhere comfy to read a book, lounging on your patio, or even just sitting 
down to watch something uninterrupted. 


Reduce Social Media Noise

Social media noise is any of the drama, distractions, and even triggers that are caused 
by what you see on social media. It isn’t bad to want to use social media, but it can be 
easy to be negatively affected by it on an emotional level, without actually realizing how 
much of an impact it has on you. A good way to tell is just go 24 hours without using it, 
and write down how you feel when you’re done. 

Are you more relaxed? Did you have more time to focus on other things? Did you notice 
the lack of being emotionally triggered helped you in some way? If so, you know social 
media was a big part of your mental stress. 





3. Bad Habits and Toxic Influences

Anything that is done in excess in your life can be detrimental to your wellness and 
emotional health, and that includes positivity. Toxic positivity is simply forcing yourself to 
be positive and optimistic about absolutely everything in your life, the good, the bad, the 
stressful, and the joyous. While it is amazing to practice positive self-talk and look on 
the bright side of things, it can turn toxic when it results in denial or the inability to really 
accept your own thoughts and emotions. 

You are living a human experience just like everyone else, so you shouldn’t feel shame 
or guilt for feeling how you feel, even if it isn’t 100% positive all the time. 

Here are some things to know about toxic positivity.


What Does Toxic Positivity Look Like?

First of all, what exactly is toxic positivity? Here are some common signs to be aware of.

Invalidating someone else’s emotions by telling them to just get over it. This is 
probably one of the most common ways people practice toxic positivity. You might 
mean well when your friend tells you they are feeling bad about something, and you tell 
them to just not think about it and move past it, but it isn’t helpful at all. You don’t want 
others to do this to you either.

Shaming someone for the types of emotions they are experiencing. Whether you 
are shamed or you are shaming someone else, this often comes out in the form of 
shutting down someone’s feelings, and telling them to look on the bright side. While it is 
good to always look for gratitude in times of stress, you should also be free to express 
and feel your emotions. This is necessary before you can process them fully.

Masking your feelings with something positive, no matter how bad you feel. 
Masking or hiding your emotions is not “just thinking positively”. This is toxic positivity. It 
is a way to pretend you’re happy and everything is fine, while you are hurting deep 
inside, even if you don’t acknowledge or accept those feelings. It is okay to feel how you 
feel.










Examples of Toxic Positivity

If you’re still a little confused about what toxic positivity is compared to just having a 
positive mindset or attitude, here are some examples of what it might look like in your 
life.

Just be happy! You can’t force emotions, even if you want to. A classic form of toxic 
positivity is when you feel sad, angry, or stressed, and someone tells you to just feel 
happy. 

It’s going to work out. Nobody else can predict what will happen, so a better method 
of supporting someone with a difficult circumstance is to offer your help and listen to 
them, not tell them it’s going to be fine. This doesn’t seem toxic, but it is more in the 
delivery of this statement and the true meaning behind it.

Everything happens for a reason. This is a very common form of toxic positivity by 
someone who means well. They want to help you feel better about a bad situation, but 
being told it happened for a reason is often very hurtful, and doesn’t help you feel 
supported at all.


What You Can Do About it

Now that you understand a little more about what toxic positivity is and why it should be 
avoided, here are some tips to start removing it from your life.


Offer to listen, instead of give advice. When it comes to someone else, you want to 
be supportive and positive for them. But to avoid toxic positivity, the best thing to do is 
just to listen to them. If they need and ask for advice, they will let you know. But don’t 
just assume you know best. 

Feel your feelings completely. For your own emotions, just let them come and feel 
however you feel. You don’t have to hide from these feelings just because they aren’t all 
sunshine and rainbows.

Allow yourself time. We often rush our emotions, especially after a traumatic or 
stressful event. It’s not necessarily hiding your emotions, but trying to rush through the 
healing process. But it can’t be rushed, and can actually turn into toxic positivity when 
you force yourself to feel better before you’re ready.






Bad Emotional Health Habits to Break

There are many healthy lifestyle habits that can improve your emotional wellbeing and 
help you to live a happier, healthier life. There are also some bad habits that might not 
seem terrible from a distance, but when done in excess could be causing you to lose 
some of that emotional wellness. For improved resilience and emotional strength, it is 
best to avoid these habits.


Hiding From Your Emotions

Pretending you don’t feel how you feel isn’t going to make your problems go away. If 
anything, this just prolongs how bad you feel. It can sometimes feel easier to hide from 
your emotions and pretend they aren’t there. This feels comfortable and like you don’t 
have to deal with them at all. But what tends to happen is they build up, and come out 
sooner or later, but much more extreme than if you just dealt with them in the first place. 

Not to mention that when you hide from how you feel, you aren’t really hiding. You are 
just covering them up with other unhealthy coping mechanisms. 


Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms

Speaking of unhealthy coping mechanisms, it can also sometimes feel easier to just 
push those bad feelings aside and instead participate in unhealthy coping activities like 
drugs and alcohol, but if you aren’t dealing with them, they will keep festering. 

Plus, some of these bad habits actually make your emotional and mental health worse. 
If you have depression or anxiety, alcohol can make it much worse. While you are 
drinking and having a good time, it seems like everything is great. But once you sober 
up, that alcohol acts like a depressant, making you feel much worse in the long run. 


Reacting Immediately Before Sitting With Your Emotions

While you don’t want to hide from your emotions, you also don’t want to immediately 
react in a bad way. Give yourself a minute to feel how you feel, figure out why you feel 
that way, and then react once you have calmed down.

This typically happens in response to something that made you feel angry, sad, or 
defensive. You don’t want to just jump down the person’s throat who made you feel this 
way. In these moments, your emotions tend to be so heightened that you act irrationally 
and say things you don’t really mean. This can be hard to come back from. 

Strike a balance by giving yourself a minute to calm down, think about what you are 
feeling and why, and then work on processing your emotions in a healthy and 
constructive manner.


Judging or Feeling Shame Over Your Own Emotions

While you are in control of how you feel, outside circumstances can catch you off guard. 
This is no reason to have shame or judgment over how you feel. You are having a 
human experience, the same one everyone else on this Earth has gone through. There 
is nothing to be embarrassed about. There is no reason to ever judge how you feel 
about something, no matter what other people think about it.


Trying to Constantly Stay Busy

There is a difference between healthy distractions and just trying to stay busy for the 
sake of avoiding how you feel about something. Distractions like reading, going for a 
walk, meditating, or watching something funny on TV can be good for you. They allow 
you to rest a little and think on your emotions when you feel more prepared for them.

But when you try to stay busy with work and productive activities constantly, you might 
actually be trying to hide from emotions you just don’t want to deal with. This is when it 
turns into a bad habit for your emotional health.


Are Other People Draining Your Energy?

Your emotional and mental energy is a really important part of what makes up your 
emotional health, so if you feel like it has been suffering lately, it is essential that you 
look into what might be causing it. But sometimes, it has nothing to do with what you are 
doing, and more about what other people are doing. Here are some signs that other 
people might be draining you of your energy.


They Make You Feel Overwhelmed Every Time You See Them

Toxic people are not always abusive or lash out at you. Sometimes, it is more subtle 
when they drain your energy and they might not even realize they are doing it. One of 
the signs to look for is when you feel exhausted or overwhelmed when you talk to a 
certain person or spend time with them.

You likely have people like this in your life, but you didn’t realize it was a problem. Many 
times, we blame certain things on outside circumstances, and not the person 
themselves. It is not a reason to judge your friends, but if they tend to be toxic in nature 
and drain you of your energy, you might need to spend a little less time with them. 

This is really a decision only you can make, but if you are working on your emotional 
health, it might be necessary for the time being.


There is Always Some Kind of Drama Going on

Some people are just addicted to drama and almost seek it out. But you don’t have to 
engage if you feel like this kind of drama and gossiping is negatively affecting your own 
energy. When other people talk about drama or gossip often, you tend to get sucked 
into it, even if you didn’t want to be. Even when it is about someone you don’t even 
know, hearing that over and over again can give you a similar negative mindset. 


You Are Made to Feel Like You Never Do Anything Right

Another thing that toxic people might do is make you feel like nothing you say or do is 
ever good enough. Like you have to constantly prove yourself to them, and they still 
have something to criticize. This can come from your friends, your partner, co-workers, 
even your parents. 

The next time someone makes you feel like you did or said the wrong thing, or gets 
upset by how you reacted to something, take a moment to consider if this has happened 
before with his person. How often do they react like this? Do you feel their reaction to 
you is justified? Do you feel like you have to walk on eggshells and be extra careful with 
what you say?


They Downplay Your Emotions or Feelings

It is normal and healthy to experience a wide range of feelings and emotions, so nobody 
should ever be making you feel bad about them. No matter what emotions you have, 
you should feel free to express them in front of your friends. When you have people who 
don’t let you talk about your feelings, it is a sign of a toxic friend.


You Feel Irritable or Moody Around Them

Lastly, if there is a particular person who makes you feel moodier or more irritable than 
what is normal for you, it is a big sign that thy are an energy vampire. The people you 
choose to be around should lift you up and support you. They should make you feel 
loved and feel happier. While it is not their job to validate your feelings, you shouldn’t 
constantly feel irritable just being in their presence. This is a sign that they are zapping 
you of all your positive energy.




4. Emotional Healing and Dealing With Your Emotions


Emotional exhaustion is a type of mental fatigue that can affect many areas of your life. 
Not only does exhaustion of this magnitude affect you emotionally and mentally, but 
physically as well. It makes it hard to focus and concentrate, hard to spend time with 
others, hard to do just about anything. 


Signs You Are Suffering From Emotional Exhaustion


1. You Have Trouble Focusing

Do you find that your ability to focus and concentrate on a task is getting worse? Maybe 
you can focus for a little bit, but not nearly as long as you used to. This might be a sign 
of emotional exhaustion. Having trouble focusing can come in many forms, so it’s not 
always as straightforward as not being able to get anything done.

You might find that you can focus for a few minutes at a time, but then your mind starts 
wandering.
You may be able to get your work done, but when it comes to anything around the 
house, you aren’t able to get anything done. If you are in school, you might doze off 
constantly when trying to study or do homework. 

Regardless of how it is happening, this could be a sign of emotional exhaustion.


2. You Are in a Constant State of Irritation

Being irritated and annoyed is a normal human emotion, but you can probably tell when 
it gets worse or when it never seems to go away. When it is from exhaustion or burnout, 
that irritation tends to be a constant state of moodiness. Every little thing bugs you, 
whether it is from your spouse, your kids, your pets, co-workers, friends, or neighbors.

You never really feel settled and relaxed, and you can’t let anything go without it 
bothering you deeply. It is often a more severe form of just being very touchy. 







3. You Have Regular Aches and Pains, Headaches, and Other Pains

Believe it or not, mental and emotional issues can develop into physical aches and 
pains. This is why when you are experiencing mental stress, you start experiencing 
physical issues, like not being able to sleep, neck pain from tension, headaches from 
the neck pain, and just overall body aches and pains.

The same thing can happen when you are struggling with emotional exhaustion. It tends 
to create a lot of tension and pain in your physical body. If you have aches and pains 
and no idea what is causing it, consider emotional reasons.


4. You Can’t Handle Any Amount of Stress

Everyone will go through stress on a regular basis, though the amount of stress you 
experience varies quite a bit. However, how you are able to handle that stress is what 
can determine is a healthy emotional wellbeing, or dealing with emotional exhaustion.

You probably know the difference between normal stress that is uncomfortable, but you 
can deal with, and stress while you have emotional exhaustion. Even if the situation 
causing your stress is similar, it seems so much worse. It is an instant reaction of your 
mind and body, where you absolutely cannot handle any of it. 


5. You Have a Lack of Motivation

In addition to not focusing or concentrating very well, you may also notice that you don’t 
have much motivation either. You might be able to do what is mandatory, like going to 
work every day, but your efforts are minimal and you typically can only do the bare 
minimum. 

You might suddenly have no motivation to exercise, run errands, or do self-care. You 
have no desire to do anything that isn’t working or sleeping, and possibly taking care of 
some of your more essential needs, but nothing else sounds interesting at all to you. 
Either that, or you feel so physically exhausted, you just can’t manage it at all. 


6. You Cancel Most Plans

Canceling plans very once in a while might not be a big sign of exhaustion or burnout, 
but canceling every plan or even most of them can definitely be a warning sign. A big 
sign of this is when you have weekly commitments with friends, such as Sunday brunch 
or going to the movies every Friday with your significant other, and you suddenly don’t 
want to go and keep canceling. 

Any time something seems unusual for you, it could be a sign of exhaustion, burnout, or 
another emotional issue you are dealing with.


Tips for Coping with Emotional Stress

There are many forms of stress that can impact your life, but emotional stress is one of 
the most difficult to handle. Even someone with amazing emotional wellbeing and 
excellent resilience will struggle a bit with emotional stress. While you can’t avoid 
stressful situations, you can control how you react to them and what kind of effect they 
have on your life. 

Here are some helpful tips for coping with emotional stress.


Focus on What Makes You Feel Positive

Even if you feel like your current stress is overwhelming and like you can’t possibly 
focus on anything else, there is something positive in your life that you can think about 
instead. Even on your worst day when it feels like all hope is lost, there is something to 
be grateful for. If you just had the worst day of your life, but now you are sitting at home, 
in the home that keeps you safe and comfortable, that is a blessing that not everyone 
has. 

You can’t think positively all the time, and you shouldn’t. This isn’t about forcing yourself 
to feel happy or toxic positivity. It is more about looking on the bright side when you can, 
and not just focusing solely on your stress 100 percent of the time. 


Look for Healthy Distractions

Sometimes what you really need to deal with stress is a healthy distraction. If you have 
some time to yourself to do whatever you want, turn on something that makes you 
laugh. Listen to your favorite music. Read from a fiction novel. Do something that is just 
for you and nothing productive. 

This is not the time to go down your to-do list and get more work done or work on house 
projects. It is the time for self-care and self-love. For doing something just for you to 
take your mind off your stress for a moment. 







Express Yourself Honestly in a Journal

Journaling can benefit everyone no matter the circumstance, and dealing with emotional 
stress is definitely no exception. Journaling comes in many forms, from keeping a 
gratitude journal to doing daily brain dumps of all your thoughts. For stress, a 
combination of different journaling strategies works great. 

If your stress is from a brand new situation you haven’t really worked through 
emotionally yet, then you want to do a brain dump, often called stream of 
consciousness journaling. This is where you just write whatever is on your mind. Be 
open and honest and brutal with yourself. Allow your thoughts to flow onto paper, no 
matter how many different streams of thought come out. 

Another great method for stress journaling is to write down what you are grateful for. It 
is another way to look on the bright side even if just for a few minutes. Find 5-10 
blessings in your life that you can be grateful for and write them down. It helps even 
more if you can write down WHY you are grateful for these things.


Meditate for a Few Minutes

Don’t worry about having to master meditation and do it for hours a day just to benefit. 
For emotional stress, all you really need is a few minutes a day to start calming your 
mind. For stress, breathing meditation is probably best. This takes all the added 
pressure over trying to clear your mind.

Just sit quietly, close your eyes, and focus on your breaths. Take deep inhales and 
exhales, focus on how they feel, and where your mind goes. Focus on the sounds of 
your breaths. Set an intention to relax more and more with every exhale. You will soon 
be in a meditative state without even realizing it.


Move Your Body

Release endorphins through your favorite form of exercise to start dealing with your 
stress in a healthy way. Any type of exercise can release the happy chemicals in your 
brain, but cardio does tend to work the fastest. Even if you aren’t in good shape, you 
can just go on a walk around the neighborhood to feel better. Plus, when you exercise 
outside in nature, the fresh air and scenery can help tremendously with your stress 
levels.






Why You Shouldn't Hide Your Emotions

It can often feel overwhelming and even more stressful when you acknowledge your 
emotions, and even harder when it comes to expressing them in an open and honest 
way. It is scary to come to a place of acceptance with your own emotions about various 
things in your life, but hiding from them isn’t going to help anything. In fact, in most 
cases it makes it a lot worse. 

Here are some reasons you should not be hiding your emotions, and instead should be 
embracing them.


Common Reasons People Hide Their Emotions

There are many reasons why people have a tendency to hide their emotions, not just to 
other people, but often from themselves. These might include:

Not wanting to deal with them – Simply put, people don’t want to deal with their 
emotions. It is scary and uncomfortable. 

Feeling shame or guilt – A very common reason for people hiding their emotions is 
that they are ashamed of them or feel guilty. Your emotions are just what they are, and 
it is nothing to be ashamed of. You can’t always control how you feel or react to 
something, so processing and accepting them is your only option.

Not wanting to appear weak – This often starts in adolescence by people who were 
raised to hide their emotions. A parent who tells them not to be “weak” and to stop 
crying has taught their child that it’s not okay to have feelings. This unfortunately follows 
them into adulthood, and it’s a hard habit to break.

The fear of losing control – Some people also feel that once they start expressing 
their true feelings, they will never stop. That all that control they built up over years of 
practice will explode and let loose every emotion they have ever tried to hide.


It Puts a Strain on Relationships

The first reason you don’t want to hide your emotions is that it can put a big strain on 
your relationships. If you have a habit of hiding how you truly feel, then the person you 
are in a relationship will also not know how you feel. Not just your negative emotions, 
but your positive ones as well. 

They won’t be able to feel these feelings. They won’t know when something is upsetting 
you. They won’t always feel the love and compassion you have for them if you hide too 
much. 


It Creates a Lack of Clarity and Understanding

In general, not processing and expressing your emotions makes for a lot of 
misunderstanding. Not just with other people, but also with yourself. To get to know 
yourself more and work on your emotional health, you need clarity from your own 
emotions. The way you feel and react to things that happen in your life says so much 
about who you are as a person. Just by processing and accepting your emotions, you 
can learn so much and gain clarity. This can be so healing for you as you move forward.


Lowered Self-Confidence

You might think that by hiding your true feelings, you are protecting yourself and your 
own confidence, but you might actually be making it worse. Just pretending you never 
feel anything bad isn’t going to magically improve your confidence. You need self-
compassion and unconditional self-love for that. And you can only truly love yourself 
fully when you embrace every thought, every feeling, and every emotion that you have.


You Might Cope With Unhealthy Habits

People who hide from their emotions often do so with unhealthy habits. This ranges 
from shopping and gambling, to substance abuse. If you find that when you feel 
anything uncomfortable, you quickly try to find something to cover it up and feel 
anything else, it is a really bad cycle you have gotten yourself caught up in.

Now is the perfect time to break free of this cycle and accept your feelings for what they 
are.


How to Handle Burnout and Overwhelm

Burnout and overwhelm are not exactly the same thing, though they are very closely 
linked. With burnout, you tend to enter a state of exhaustion, both mentally and 
physically. It is often the result of a lot of stress, being overworked, or just putting too 
much on your shoulders without taking a break. Overwhelm often follows closely behind 
or occurs shortly before you experience burnout, where you just feel like you have far 
too much on your plate, and aren’t sure how to keep up.

Both burnout and overwhelm cause a level of exhaustion, fatigue, and stress that make 
it hard to cope emotionally. Luckily, there are some solutions that can help you stable 
your emotions and find more balance in your life.



Look for Signs of Burnout and Overwhelm

Both burnout and overwhelm can sneak up on you, and cause a lot of confusing 
symptoms. It helps to first know what these signs are so you know where to start on 
your emotional healing journey. 

Some of the more common symptoms of burnout include being exhausted and severely 
fatigued, having headaches and muscle pain, and lack of focus and concentration. In 
addition to these signs, you might notice the following:

Poor quality in your work
Mood changes like irritability and anger
Significant change in your appetite
Significant change in your sleeping habits
A feeling of failure
Lack of motivation
Issues with friends and family
Increased illnesses and lowered immunity
Isolation from others
Procrastination


Let Yourself Feel How You Feel

When it comes to your emotional wellbeing, no matter what you are dealing with, you 
should always allow yourself to feel how you feel without judgment. This includes when 
those feelings are related to burnout. 

When you try to hide or cover up your real feelings, even if what you are feeling is 
extremely tired and worn out, it isn’t going to solve anything. Pretending you aren’t 
dealing with something on an emotional level, doesn’t make it go away. It’s like putting a 
Band-Aid on a bullet hole. You might not really see it, but it’s still there, and it’s not 
getting better on its own. 

Allow yourself to feel whatever it is you feel when you have burnout, and any other time 
in your life. The good days, the bad days, the challenging days, the exhausting days. 
They all deserve for you to validate your own feelings. The more you can do this, the 
easier it becomes to process your emotions, and actually prevent burnout and 
overwhelm in the future.







Incorporate Relaxing Activities Into Your Day

You might not be able to stop working or take a vacation when you have burnout, but 
you can certainly fit in some relaxing activities throughout your day. People with burnout 
often get that way by overworking themselves and not taking enough time off. Sure, you 
might not be able to take days or weeks off for vacation, but you can still find way to rest 
and you should. 

Nobody should be doing nothing but working during their waking hours. The body and 
the mind are not set up for this. You are not a machine and you shouldn’t treat your 
body like it is one. Instead, find relaxing things to do that don’t take up too much time or 
mental space. 

This might be reading a fun book, watching a movie with your family, going for a hike 
with friends, or just laying down on the couch in the afternoon to rest your eyes for a few 
minutes.

Control What You Are Able to Control

Instead of stressing about the situations in your life you can’t control, instead try to focus 
on what you can control. What in your life are you able to handle right now? What is 
completely in your control?

If you are self-employed and struggling with the stress of a slow business month, that’s 
not really something you have full control over. You can market your business, but really 
it is up to the customers or clients. But what you can control is improving your product, 
taking a break, hiring someone who has a specialty that would improve your business. 

No matter what you are dealing with, look at what is within your control, and that can 
take some of the pressure off your shoulders and help with your overwhelm.


Get Support From Others

Finally, make sure you are getting adequate support from the people around you. When 
you get to the level of complete burnout or emotional exhaustion, you might need some 
help from others. 

This could be someone to help watch your kids when you have work to do or you just 
need a break, or asking your boss for some time off. If you are self-employed, you might 
need to hire someone to help you pick up the slack. Or it might just be as simple as a 
friend coming over to talk and hang out for a couple hours. Doing this alone is going to 
make it a lot harder. 



Can You Heal Your Emotional Wounds?

If you have emotional trauma, which is often the result of extremely stressful events in 
your life, it might be time for some emotional healing. This will allow you not to forget 
what has happened or even forgive anyone who was responsible, but simply to move 
on emotionally and learn how to cope with these events.

The good news is, it is very possible to heal your own emotional wounds with a series of 
habits and mindset shifts.


Be Patient With Yourself

Before you begin the process of healing your emotional wounds, remind yourself that it 
takes time and to be patient with this process. What took potentially years to cause this 
emotional burden, is not going to be cured in an afternoon. You really need to be kind to 
yourself during this process and be as patient as you can be. 

Give yourself a little more grace and stop judging yourself for not “getting over it” at a 
more rapid pace. As long as you are working on your emotional healing, then you’re on 
the right track. 


Identify, Acknowledge, and Accept Your Feelings

The first step of healing your wounds is understanding what they are, analyzing them, 
and then coming to accept them right now. This doesn’t mean they will never go away 
of course, but acceptance allows you to remove the frustration and resentment you 
might be experiencing. 

When you have an emotional wound or trauma, the first step to healing it is always to 
identify what your feelings are. Consider what happened, why you felt the way you did, 
and how it has impacted you on an emotional level. 

Next, acknowledge where you are today with this emotional trauma, and how it is 
affecting you in your life. Be really honest with yourself about this if you want true 
emotional healing.

Finally, come to a place of acceptance. This doesn’t mean forgiveness or even 
forgetting it happened. Just accepting that you can’t go back and change it, and all you 
can do is work on yourself and moving forward.





Connect with Others

Having a positive support system around you is always a good thing when it comes to 
emotional traumas or wounds, no matter how bad they were. Think of the people in your 
life who you can turn to and really talk openly with. These are the people who are 
always there to listen and will only offer guidance if and when you ask for it. 

It is also a good idea to seek out counseling or therapy for emotional traumas. You don’t 
have to do this alone.


Focus on Self-Care

Treat yourself kindly and with compassion! Self-care can seem almost frivolous when 
you have emotional wounds, but it isn’t about pampering yourself and getting massages 
and doing things that cost money. Self-care is really about putting yourself first and 
showing yourself some love and compassion. Nobody can love you as much as you 
love yourself, so you need to treat yourself with respect during this healing process.

Practice Mindfulness

Try to focus on staying present, even when these intrusive thoughts come up and try to 
ruin your good day. Mindfulness helps a lot during an emotional healing journey 
because you stay present and come to a place of acceptance with your thoughts and 
your emotions. What you feel in any given moment is a temporary feeling, so even in 
your worst moments, you know it isn’t going to last forever. 

You can also combine mindfulness with journaling and meditation for a different healing 
experience. Remember that this is a journey and no two journeys are identical. Choose 
your own healing path based on what your individual needs are.


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.

































5. Lifestyle Changes to Improve Your Emotional Wellness

There is no one way to improve your emotional wellness, but like other types of health 
and wellness, is a combination of changes you make it your life. There are a variety of 
simple habits and lifestyle changes that not only help your physical health, but your 
emotional health as well.


Exercise

This is one of the best and most impactful habits that you can incorporate into your 
lifestyle for emotional wellness, though you might not have considered it. Exercise is 
often seen as improving your physical health, which of course it does. But it is also 
amazing at boosting your emotional wellness.

If you have ever participated in a workout program or challenge, how did you feel? 
Chances are, even if it was challenging on a physical level, you started building a lot of 
resilience mentally and physically. You were more energetic and in a much better mood.

When you exercise, you release endorphins, which are the happy chemicals in your 
brain. You can also boost your serotonin, helping your emotional and mental health 
even more. With just light exercise a few days a week, you will notice a drastic 
difference in how you feel.


Dietary Changes

What you consume every day can also determine how healthy your mind is. If you want 
to change your lifestyle for emotional wellbeing, think about your diet. The foods you 
choose to consume make a much bigger impact on your emotional wellbeing than you 
would think.

For example, healthy fats can really help with your brain and your memory function. 
When you eat more fruits and vegetables, the fiber and vitamin B can help lessen the 
severity of depression symptoms. There are natural remedies you can take as well, like 
valerian and maca root that help with your mental health.

As for nutrients, the ones that help your brain function the most include iron, 
magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin V, and zinc. 

Think about how much better you feel when you are eating a healthy diet. You get more 
physical energy, but you also just feel lighter and happier. You feel like you can handle 
anything. This is what you get when you focus on your nutrition.


Meditation and Mindfulness

To relax your mind and start developing healthier coping skills, consider meditation and 
mindfulness. You can do them together or just pick the one that best suits your needs. 

With mindfulness, you stay present in the moment, and just accept whatever is 
happening without judgment. You don’t stress about the future or worry about the past. 
You just live in that moment and really pay attention to the details.

Meditation is similar, but while you are staying present, you are in a calm and serene 
environment. You focus on your breathing and try to clear your mind the best you can. 
Guided meditations will guide you through this process if you are a beginner.


Journaling

Writing in a journal every day is a great habit that is easy to do and provides a long list 
of amazing benefits for your emotional health. Add writing in a journal every day to your 
lifestyle and routine. Different journaling is better suited to different times of the day.

For your morning routine, consider a brain dump. This is a great way to start your day 
because you get all of these anxious and intrusive thoughts out of your head. It can 
really lessen a lot of the stress you are under and anything that is confusing or 
frustrating to you. 

For nighttime journaling, consider writing about your day, starting a gratitude journal, or 
using journal prompts. This is when you can find more self-awareness and gain clarity 
into your life.

No matter what form of journaling you choose, it will help tremendously with your 
emotional wellness. 















Self-Care

If you haven’t done so already, you should also be incorporating some self-care 
activities into your lifestyle. For emotional wellness, consider self-care that not only 
helps you put yourself first and make your own needs a priority, but also help with your 
emotional health. 

This might include:

Reading
Doing something creative
Getting rest
Going for a nature walk
Soaking in a soothing bath


Get Better Sleep

Lastly, don’t forget about sleep! Sleep should always be a priority in your life, so if you 
have been neglecting, that might be what is wrong with your emotional and mental 
state. Create a new sleep routine so you go to bed at a decent hour and can have 
restful sleep.


Natural Remedies for Improved Emotional Health

If you are looking for natural ways to improve your emotional health, you have come to 
the right place. These are all completely natural and holistic, so you aren’t using 
anything harsh on your body or your mind. These natural remedies provide so many 
amazing healing benefits outside of improving your emotional wellness.


Focus on Balanced Nutrition

What you put into your body in the form of food and drinks can make a really big 
difference on not just your physical health, but your emotional health as well. If you want 
to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing with your diet, think first of your gut 
bacteria. Your gut and your brain are very closely connected, so when you eat foods 
that improve your gut, your brain and your mental health often improve as well. 

This can include foods with prebiotics and probiotics, including kefir, yogurt, and kimchi. 
Another good idea is to reduce foods and drinks that worsen your anxiety, such as 
caffeine, sugar, and alcohol.



Get Your Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Healthy fats are good for you! Another aspect of nutrition to consider for boosting your 
emotional and mental health is with healthy fats like omega-3 fatty acids. Not only do 
omega-3 fatty acids help with your physical health and wellness, but can reduce the 
symptoms of anxiety and depression, and give you a lot of positive energy. 

You can get more omega-3 fatty acids into your diet with foods like salmon, mackerel, 
tuna, walnuts, and flaxseed. 


Include St. John’s Wort and Maca Root

Holistic remedies that utilize natural herbs like St. John’s wort and maca root are 
amazing for your emotional and mental state. 

St. John’s Worth has been used for many years as a natural remedy for mental health 
conditions, including depression and anxiety. But even if you don’t have a mental 
disorder, it can still help with your emotional wellbeing. It is definitely worth a try. 

Maca root is another great herbal remedy for your emotional wellness. Many people find 
that it improves their mood and gives them more energy. With more physical energy, 
you tend to move your body more, which can then release endorphins to boost your 
mood and make you feel happier.


Meditate on a Daily Basis

Meditation can also be considered a natural and holistic approach to your emotional 
wellbeing. Meditation provides many benefits for your emotional wellbeing, and can be 
done in as little as 5-10 minutes a day.

If you have never meditated before, your 2 best options are breathing exercises and 
guided meditation. With guided meditation, you listen to someone tell you what to focus 
on, when to breathe, when to be mindful, and even create a visualization for you to think 
about. Breathing meditation is simply focusing on your breathing, and not on your 
intrusive thoughts. 

Another great option is to combine meditation with mindfulness, where you stay in the 
present moment and meditate only on how you think and feel in that very moment, 
without worrying about the past or future.





Take Vitamin D

Lastly, when it comes to specific vitamins and minerals, it doesn’t get much better than 
vitamin D for your emotional health. While vitamin D can’t cure depression, it has been 
found that people with depression symptoms are often deficient in vitamin D. It also 
helps to improve your mood and give you more energy. 

Vitamin D deficiency is actually very common among most people. You get natural 
vitamin D simply through the sun’s UV rays. But if you work at home or in an office, you 
don’t get outside much. This can lead to a deficiency and emotional and physical 
effects. 

If you can’t get sun exposure every day, taking a vitamin D supplement is the next best 
thing.


Why Journaling is Your Best Tool for Improved Emotional Wellbeing

When it comes to improving your emotional wellbeing and making your emotional health 
a priority, there are many tools at your disposal. But among them, using a journal is one 
of the very best. It is easy to use, inexpensive, and extremely versatile. 

Here are some different ways to use a journal on your own emotional wellness journey.


You Can Acknowledge and Process Your Emotions

One of the biggest emotional wellbeing benefits you get from using a journal is not only 
being able to become more aware of your emotions, but actually learn how to start 
processing them. Before you can process your emotions, you do need to acknowledge 
them. If you have a tendency to hide away from your emotions out of fear, then the 
journal can feel much safer and more private for you. 


You Work Through Traumas and Other Challenges

Any time you have an emotional trauma in your life, no matter how mild or severe it may 
seem, your emotions will be put through the ringer. It can often feel like you aren’t able 
to process it and deal with it on your own, but with a journal, you have a little extra help.

You have a safe space where you can write down how you feel or think about that 
traumatic event, what challenges you faced, and how you are feeling about it now. 
Nobody ever has to read what you write in your journal, so it is easier to be honest with 
yourself and use it as a tool for your road to emotional healing.


It Provides You With Self-Reflection and Clarity

Journaling is a wonderful tool when it comes to self-reflection and gaining more clarity 
into your life, your thoughts and feelings, and your emotions. Not just for your emotional 
wellbeing, but improving your life and mindset as a whole.

Even when you don’t intend to, you find a lot of clarity from writing in a journal. This is 
especially true when you choose a stream of consciousness style of journaling, where 
you write down anything that is on your mind, with no rules or prompts to use.


Journaling is a Safe and Healthy Distraction Activity

Sometimes what you really need is simply something to distract your mind and not 
focus so much on one thing that is weighing heavily on you. This doesn’t mean you try 
to hide away your emotions and never deal with them, but just to give yourself some 
time to relax until you’re ready to deal with them. 

It is a healthy way to distract your mind as you work through how you are feeling, until 
you can come back to those emotions and get to the root of what is actually going on 
inside your head.


You Can Sit With Your Emotions Instead of Reacting

With a journal, you can also start learning how to sit with your emotions, instead of 
immediately reacting. By writing down how you feel and getting to the bottom of WHY 
you feel that way, this exercise alone helps you to take a pause before immediately 
reacting and going down a negative thoughts spiral. 

When you immediately react to how you feel, it is often based on your fears or limiting 
beliefs, and not realistically what is happening. This can lead to a lot of regret, guilt, and 
shame. It is much healthier for your emotional wellbeing to sit with your emotions by just 
writing them down and considering where they are coming from.


Journaling Helps to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

Stress and anxiety are both very common and it doesn’t mean anything is wrong with 
you. But there is no denying that it can make having a healthy emotional wellbeing a 
little more difficult. Using a journal every day to process those emotions helps 
tremendously when you struggle with stress, anxiety, or other mental health disorders. 

Many people find that just writing about their day or what is going through their mind at 
the time can help with their anxiety. You can use the journal to figure out your own 
anxiety triggers, and discover what in your life might be making your stress worse. Even 
if it doesn’t resolve these issues, having an outlet to express what you are going 
through is never a bad thing.


Spiritual Practices That Nurture Your Emotional State

Many people think of spiritual and divination practices as helping with specific things like 
reducing anxiety, manifesting something into your life, and heling you to choose a path 
moving forward. But they can also help with your emotional state overall, allowing you to 
focus more on your thoughts and feelings, and improving your emotional wellbeing in 
time.


Practice Visualization

If you have ever looked into spiritual practices, particularly when it comes to 
manifestation or the law of attraction, you have heard of visualization. But even if you 
don’t believe in that type of manifesting, you can absolutely benefit emotionally by using 
visualization. 

Visualization helps your emotional state by allowing you to visualize yourself being calm 
and relaxed. Any time you feel stressed or you simply want to improve your emotional 
wellbeing, sit quietly in a meditative state, close your eyes, and imagine how you would 
feel if you were more relaxed. 


Pull Tarot Cards

A spiritual practice that is becoming much more popular is to use tarot cards. Believe it 
or not, the simple act of pulling a few tarot cards every day can really help you to be 
more intuitive about your life, and help reduce stress caused by confusion or 
uncertainty.

You don’t have to think about tarot cards as trying to “read your future” or provide 
psychic insight. Tarot can’t predict your future, but rather you want to pull cards and use 
your intuition to help guide you in your life. 

For example, if you have been dealing with emotional stress because of a career 
decision you are struggling with, you can set the intention that you want to pull 3 cards 
to help you with this decision. When you pull the cards, you can consider the meaning 
behind those cards, but really use your intuition to figure out what it is telling you. 





Use Healing Crystals

There are quite a few healing crystals that can be used for your emotional and mental 
health. Crystals can help ground you, make you feel calmer and more relaxed, improve 
your quality of sleep, protect you from other people’s toxic energy, and even help with 
your stress and anxiety. 

Here are some of our personal favorites for your emotional wellbeing:

Amethyst – If you have any type of stress or anxiety in your life, amethyst is the crystal 
for you. Keep it with you, wear amethyst jewelry, have amethyst crystals on your desk 
or in your car, you can even put it under your pillow to improve your sleep.

Rose Quartz – Rose quartz is often used by people for self-care and to manifest love 
into their life. But this positive energy stone can also be wonderful for your emotional 
wellbeing, as it helps to activate and soothe your heart chakra, and can help ground you 
and make you feel more relaxed.

Selenite – You might also want to get a selenite crystal. Among its many wonderful 
benefits for your spiritual practices, selenite can cleanse you of negative energy that 
might be keeping you from proper emotional wellness.


Meditate

Meditation is one of the most popular and widely used spiritual practices for emotional 
wellbeing, but you will also notice many other benefits as well when you begin this 
simple practice. While meditation can often be seen as a way to clear the mind, it 
doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. All you are doing when you are 
meditating is relaxing the body and the mind, and momentarily not worrying about what 
is causing you stress or anxiety. 

It can be as simple as just sitting for 5 minutes every day and focusing on your 
breathing. Thoughts may come in and out, and that’s okay. Just come back to center 
and ground yourself while thinking about your breaths. A good way to focus away from 
your thoughts is to notice how it feels when you inhale and exhale, how your body 
moves, and allowing it to relax you a little more every time you breathe in and out.


Practice Gratitude

Lastly, don’t forget to practice gratitude! It is a highly underrated practice that can 
improve your life and your mindset exponentially. Gratitude is also super easy to do, 
and only requires a notebook or journal and a pen. You can also just write down your 
gratitude on any piece of paper. 

Every day, make a habit of writing down what you are grateful for. You can write down 
as many things as you want, but aiming for 5-10 a day is a good number. 

This can be absolutely anything in your life you consider a blessing or are appreciative 
of. This might be something small like your morning cup of tea or something nice that a 
neighbor did for you. Many days, you will have the same things on your list, such as 
home comforts, your pets, your job, or your family. Other days, something new might 
happen that you are really grateful for. 

The point is that you really think about what you are grateful for in your life, why you are 
grateful for it, and you write it down.



