Emotional Wellness

Do you feel out of balance?
What does Emotional Wellness mean?
Emotional wellness is closely connected to the other dimensions of wellness. In the most basic sense, it refers to your ability to handle emotions in a constructive way in order to enable you to maintain a positive emotional state.
Emotional Wellness helps a person achieve positive self-esteem, helping them satisfy relationships and providing resilience to meet life’s challenges.
Emotional Wellness is:

• Increased awareness of one’s emotions
• Acknowledge conflict as being potentially healthy
• Being able to express feelings freely and manage feelings effectively
• Being aware of personal limitations and the value of seeking interpersonal support and assistance
• Being able to form interdependent relationships based upon mutual commitment, trust and respect
• Being self-aware and self-accepting while remaining flexible and open to personal development
• Being aware of and accepting a wide range of thoughts and feelings in themselves and others
• Being able to manage feelings effectively to arrive at personal choices or decisions based upon the integration of feelings, thoughts and behaviour
• Being able to maintain a generally positive approach to life that is rooted in one’s sense of personal responsibility for, and ability to manage, one’s life in personally fulfilling ways

Should you or a loved one need support or counselling please contact LifeLine’s National Counselling Line on 0861 322 322 or contact our local office (011) 421-0384 to set up a face to face counselling session