Finding Your Words for a Feeling
Describe emotional experience without requiring precise labels or body awareness.
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Identifying emotions
Find personally meaningful words, images, or descriptions for emotional experience.
A tailored starting page is paired with selected practical resources. Choose related materials according to the person’s goals, access needs, and clinical assessment.
A STARTING POINT
Finding Your Words for a Feeling
You may know something feels difficult without knowing its name. Feelings can be mixed, muted, or hard to describe. A word, color, image, or “I do not know yet” can be a useful starting point. There is no correct emotional answer.
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These complete reading pages are part of the larger topic collection.
Naming a Feeling and a Need
Separate an event, emotion, interpretation, and need to support a deliberate response.
Understanding Emotions as Information
Explain emotional awareness and flexible response choices.
Listening to an Emotion With Curiosity
Explore a feeling while preserving choice about the next action.
All My Feelings Can Visit
Introduce feelings as experiences a child can notice and share.
When Ari’s Tower Fell
Follow a fictional child from a hard moment to a request for support.
My Feeling, My Clue, My Helper
Connect one manageable feeling with a chosen kind of support.
Practice Asking for Help
Rehearse a small help request with an adult who responds.
One Small Help Try
Plan one optional chance to use a help request between visits.
What Did We Learn Together?
Review a help attempt or a missed opportunity without grading the child.
Facilitating a Child-Led Feeling Activity
Prepare a supportive, age-appropriate use of the children’s pack.
A Peer Moment Has More Than One Part
Separate events, feelings, guesses, and choices in an everyday peer situation.
Jordan and the Unanswered Message
See a fictional tween check a guess and choose a manageable response.
Facts, Feelings, and My Next Choice
Sort a manageable friendship moment and choose a response within your control.
Try the Conversation Before You Need It
Practice a clear request and a safe exit from a low-stakes peer conversation.
One Low-Pressure Connection
Plan a small, optional friendship action that leaves room for a no.
What Kind of Connection Fits Me?
Review a peer interaction or a missed plan and identify a useful adjustment.
Facilitating Tween Peer Work
Support reflection about peer relationships while protecting choice and privacy.
Explore practical situations
Each situation offers ten shared activity frameworks in the full library.