How to build and strengthen emotional health: resources and tips

Emotional health can be defined as a person’s ability to accept, adapt to, and manage feelings through life’s challenges and changes. Our daily lives are made up of highs and lows. Having good emotional health means processing emotions well, being mindful of one’s emotional response to situations, and maintaining a balance of appropriate responses. It is a skillset that can be developed to successfully navigate a range of emotions, helping prevent or decrease stress, anxiety, and depression.

Sturdy emotional health can be a tool in your toolbox, assisting you in managing adversities like a terminal illness diagnosis or the passing of a loved one. There are a number of characteristics that you can develop to help you become emotionally healthy, some of which include self-awareness, self-care, coping skills, and more.  

There are a number of digital tools available to help you build your emotional health and wellbeing. Below are a few tools you can try. Some of them charge a fee, but there is often a free trial involved, which you should take advantage of to see if it’s the right fit:

• Self-awareness: 

  • Inome: A process of guided journalling and reflection to develop self-awareness, discover who you are, and form new habits to design your life. 

  • CheckingIn: A free and private tool to help you build self-awareness and emotional resilience by assessing how you respond to emotions, and if you do so productively.

  • Talkspace: Offers connections to a therapist via text message for ease of accessibility whenever you’re near a laptop, tablet, or smartphone. 

• Self care: 

  • Shine: Provides a guided self-care strategy every day to help you learn how to cope, process, and manage anxiety. They’ve created a diverse online community for support.

  • Reflectly: Reflectly is an intelligent journal utilizing artificial intelligence to help you structure and reflect upon your daily thoughts and problems, a “personal mental health companion”.

  • Wysa: For you when you need someone that will listen to you to help you figure things out. Wysa is also powered by artificial intelligence.

• Coping skills:

  • Stoic. Learn to cope with stress and daily obstacles. A mental health training app.

  • MoodMission: When you tell MoodMission how you're feeling, it gives you a tailored list of five simple, quick, effective, evidence-based Missions to improve your mood. 

  • Breathwrk: Free guided breathing exercises to help alleviate anxiety, fall asleep, get energized, and more!

While online tools and applications are accessible at your fingertips, sometimes you may want to talk to a health coach or counselor in person. If you are looking for additional assistance, talk to our concierge service here at Peacefully. The concierge service can help with referrals to trusted professionals, offering case-specific advice, recommendations, and coordination for you. For more about our concierge service or to schedule a free consultation, click here.

— Lesley Hellow