Feeling "MAPPY"

JUST FOR TODAY:  Check in with your emotional state, and realize you may be feeling more than one feeling at a time – create your own new feeling word to describe it!

How are you feeling right now?  A little mad about a coworker's decision, and also happy about resolving a conflict?  Mad + hAPPY = MAPPY!  Perhaps you're feeling nervous about an appointment that you have later today, but also excited about what you expect the outcome to be?  Nervous + eXCITED = NEXCITED!  Does this concept of making up a new word to describe a combination of emotions seem silly, but also fun?  SILLy + fUN = SILLUN!  Sometimes the process of identifying emotions can be challenging, especially if you realize that you have some uncomfortable feelings.  But realizing that you also have some pleasant emotions can help create a sense of emotional balance.  Making up your own feeling words can lighten up your overall emotional state.  And a lighter emotional state leads to a lighter weight – without emotional eating to weigh you down.  BALanced + frEE =  BALEE!  

©2010 by "Dr. Dorie" McCubbrey, M.S.Ed., Ph.D. – Eating Disorder & obesity Treatment Specialist – Denver, Colorado