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 carful 
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 very 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. 


 
