Emotional literacy
The ability to recognise, name and express feelings — your own and other people's.
How it shows up
Someone who grew up where feelings weren’t talked about has three words available: fine, bad, angry. A narrower vocabulary means poorer regulation, because you can’t regulate what you can’t name.
What we do with it in therapy
We widen the vocabulary as we go, while describing concrete situations. With children it is one of the most useful parenting tools there is.
See also
See also
Transference and countertransference
Transference is when you unconsciously carry feelings from earlier relationships onto the therapist; countertransference is the therapist's response to them.
Hope
Not the belief that things will be good, but the perception that a path exists and that you are able to walk it.
The family as a system
A view in which one member's symptom says something about the balance of the whole, not only about them.
