How Are You Feeling?

The team at Howareyoufeeling.org has found an innovative way to teach 33 evidence-based emotional concepts to youth, teens, young adults and parents. This program will help them process their feelings through their informative and developmental years. We don't have to wait for a crisis to learn about these emotional concepts. By using engaging clips from television and movies, the kids stay engaged and actively learn the concepts in a way that they can apply to their lives. There are many examples of people working through their feelings to integrate difficult life situations, thus creating emotional growth and clarity. This video series is an excellent foundation for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). It helps the students move from regulating techniques to understanding how to get through their feelings by processing them. The many examples pass on permission to feel and an understanding that being authentic about their feelings is empowering. This allows the individual to acknowledge and understand what they are feeling and that it's all part of the healing process. We help to start the difficult conversations about our emotions. We address why we feel them, why it's important to share them, and how to properly deal with them. If left unattended, these 'big feelings' can manifest into something that can snowball out of control. If adequately understood, these feelings will be seen as part of life's natural journey. As uncomfortable and unpleasant as a situation may seem, the importance of acknowledging these emotions will help us better deal with life's speedbumps and tragedies. We need to understand that we all will encounter these emotional events. (death of a loved one, end of a relationship, parents' divorcing, abuse etc). Dealing with each emotion shortly after it occurs helps us grow emotionally and gives us the courage to deal with whatever may come our way. Confronting these feelings will better prepare us for future emotional events.