Understanding Emotions: Navigating with The Feelings Wheel

feeling wheels are a tool to help you understand your emotions.

The first step to managing strong emotions effectively is to identify them. Pair these wheels with journaling or a helpful conversation with someone who loves you. And of course, your therapist!

A circular emotional and feeling wheel showing various emotions grouped into categories: joy, love, fear, anger, sadness, surprise, with detailed feelings listed under each category. The wheel is from the Unto Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership.

Circular chart illustrating emotions and traits. Core feelings include joy, discussion, fear, sadness, anger, and genius. Surrounding traits categorize positive emotions like confidence, curiosity, pride, bravery, and empowerment, and negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, and anger, with related descriptors. The outer ring emphasizes values like dignity, resilience, integrity, honesty, vulnerability, and stability.

Circular diagram showing emotional states with associated words: Peaceful (relaxed, content, loving, relieved, trusting, thoughtful, safe, thankful, nurturing); Sad (ashamed, remorseful, humbled, inferior, isolated, apathetic, exhausted, depressed, guilty, lonely, tired); Powerful (confident, respected, appreciated, important, faithful, hopeful, cheerful, energetic, excited, playful, adventurous, stimulating, daring, fascinated); Fearful (scared, confused, embarrassed, insecure, anxious, worried, rejected, worthless, inadequate, helpless, overwhelmed, discouraged); Mad (furious, sarcastic, frustrated, jealous, hostile, skeptical, critical, hurt, irritated, hurried, selfish, defensive); Joyful (creative, optimistic, cheerful, amused, excited, ecstatic, grateful, hope, inspiring, confident).