What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

Colorful round emoji faces representing a range of emotions from anger to joy, arranged beneath a gradient scale from negative to positive—highlighting how emotions are often labeled and ranked rather than understood as equally valid.

The Problem with Labeling Emotions We live in a world that loves to label feelings. From a young age, we’re taught to see emotions as either “positive” or “negative.” Joy, excitement, gratitude? Good. Anger, sadness, fear? Bad. These labels shape how we view our inner world—and they place a limitation on how we experience our […]