Acknowledging & accepting your feelings can set you free and start building your resilience.

It's essential to be aware of our emotions and recognise how we feel, whether it's happiness, sadness, stress or anger. Acknowledging feelings helps us be mindful of our feelings and identify potential triggers. If you get annoyed or angry at small things, there may be an underlying issue causing these reactions. Understanding this reaction can be helpful when supporting children who may struggle with anger or behavioural issues.

By acknowledging our feelings in front of our children and privately, we can learn to recognise and manage our emotions better. Accepting feelings helps build resilience, which is not something we are born with but something we can create within ourselves. It allows us to manage challenging situations more effectively when they arise.

Being aware of emotions is a necessarity

We all experience various emotions throughout our day, week, month, and year. Factors such as hormones, sleep, and weather can influence these emotions. However, being aware of our feelings and comprehending how we feel in different situations can help us manage them more effectively, especially when supporting our children.

Our emotions can be intense, depending on the situation. Our past experiences also play a significant role in how we react to certain situations. For example, if we had fallen off a tree and broken our arm as a child, we might feel more cautious than someone who has not had that experience. Additionally, we may feel nervous when our child climbs a tree because we fear they may encounter the same accident we had.

Building resilience is key

Questions and Answers

  • How does acknowledging how I feel, help me?

    Saying out loud or to our children how they feel, it helps us understand what that feeling is. This helps our brain process the feeling better, so yes acknowledging the feel does help us. Helps us understand, helps us process, helps us figure out the why.

  • I always seem to have bad days, what does that mean about me?

    It means you’re struggling, something is bothering you, worrying you, you need to take time to figure out what but take care of yourself too.

  • I don’t think I have any resilience, how am I supposed to improve it.

    Resilience isn’t something we are born with, it is something we build. By using strategies to support us on those bad days will help build our resilience to cope with the really bad days.

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