emotional literacy
Understanding your emotions
Emotional literacy is the ability to recognize, understand, and express emotions—both your own and others'.
The term frames emotional skills as learnable competencies rather than innate traits: The school's curriculum includes emotional literacy alongside reading and math.
It emphasizes naming feelings accurately, understanding their causes, and communicating them effectively.
- emotional balancePsychological equilibrium maintained
- self-awarenessInsight into one's psyche
- inner childYouthful aspect of psyche
- emotional intelligenceCapacity for managing feelings
- empathySharing another's emotions
reading the room · self-regulation · mindfulness · checking in · self-control · naming · articulation · coping strategies · impulse control · compassion · introspection · self-reflection · nonverbal communication · gut feeling · assertiveness · journaling · emotional resonance · stress management
- EQ skillsemotional intelligence, EQ, self-regulation, emotional awareness, self-awareness
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, love
- empathyempathy, sympathy, compassion, kindness, understanding
- teaching methodspresentation, lecturing, discussion, modeling, hands-on learning
- sex edsex education, sex ed, puberty, consent education, contraception
- literacies
emotional literacyemotional repression
Blocking one's own feelings