Emotional Wellbeing

The teacher who is not experiencing emotional well-being typically struggles with feeling paralyzed by difficult circumstances and/or moods that are either avoided or poorly controlled. This emotional turmoil also tends to contribute to unhealthy interpersonal interactions in both personal and professional settings. If I am that teacher, I am experiencing a life that seems stifled, unfulfilled, and unfair. And, as much as I don’t want to acknowledge it, I probably am, at some level, an emotional drain on those who depend on me.

If emotional well-being does not characterize your life, your hope lies in the reality that you have power to truly experience and express the complete, normal range of emotions in ways that are healthy and life-giving both to you and those around you. You also have power to release yourself from the emotionally toxic wells of unforgiveness and resentment that steal joy from your life on a daily basis.

 

Wellness Inventory Sample Questions:Emotional Well-being

Question True/False
  1. I harbor no unforgiveness in past or present personal or professional relationships.

 
  1. I do not use strong emotions, such as anger or fear, to injure others by speaking ill of them, criticizing them, attacking them, or dividing the staff.

 
  1. I stick up for myself when necessary, and I am not a “doormat.”