Total Health: Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez of ‘The Burnout Fix’ on How We Can Optimize Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing

Grow Your Emotional Vocabulary: One of the most impactful things you can do for your emotional wellness is to build out your emotional vocabulary. Imagine if you were familiar with only three emotions: happy, mad, and anxious. That would mean that whenever you felt something in yourself or perceived someone else’s emotion, you would be inclined to conceptualize those experiences in terms of happy, mad, and anxious. This would be quite limiting in understanding the nuances in your and other’s experiences. When you grow out your emotional vocabulary, you can begin to distinguish finer meanings behind your feelings. In this way, you are allowing your brain to have many more options for predicting, perceiving, and responding to emotions, which empowers your to…