Emotional well-being is the ability to produce positive emotions, moods, thoughts, and feelings, and adapt when confronted with adversity and stressful situations. One of its foundations is resilience, which allows you to navigate challenging life events. Think of resilience like a muscle. It flexes and develops the more you use it. Resilience impacts how you face challenges and how you think about the challenges you face.

Taking care of your emotional well-being truly matters as it helps manage the various elements of life with a range of emotions, without losing control. You ultimately learn to bounce back.

 

We’re all more aware of it right now, as having dealt with a recent world pandemic this intensified emotions for many people, and therefore working on your emotional well-being is always a good investment, in good times or bad.

 

Life presents with challenge events, but when you know how to face these obstacles with a resilient mindset, the confidence in your ability to get through any circumstance is strengthened.

Emotional well-being allows you to focus on the positive, and manage the negative emotions and feelings you may have in a given situation. This can help you forge stronger relationships with those around you. 

 

Being emotionally healthy includes:

*Having self-esteem and self-respect

*Being able to recognise and express feelings

*Being able to manage emotions to suit the situation

*Recognising and managing the factors that affect emotions

*Feeling positive and optimistic about life

 

The problem we face with our younger generation is that they have lost the ability to communicate verbally as they live in a world of technological in which emojis have replaced words and memes express their thoughts rather than developing the skill set to articulate their emotions themselves. Learning to express emotions is a vital part of wellbeing as without understanding what they are feeling they are unable to seek the correct help they need. One of the beautiful tasks in our Workshop delves in to help them understand how to begin to express emotions through movement and music.