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For others, while emotions may not necessarily have been
labelled as negative or unacceptable, we may simply have
grown up in an environment in which no one ever spoke
about their feelings; so we have never had the opportunity to
learn a language or an emotional vocabulary that would allow
us to develop an understanding within ourselves that would
enable us to process and to understand our emotional
experiences.

If we grew up in a world where our parents didn’t have an
emotional language themselves, not because they were bad or
inadequate parents, but because they themselves had grown
up in a world where their parents had no emotional language
either, then this incredibly helpful life skill will be missing.
We won’t be well equipped.

Having an emotional language and an emotional vocabulary
is a valuable life skill: it establishes a connection between
our emotional experience and our mind, a link between
experience and thought.

Language is descriptive, our words and the vocabulary that
we use helps us to define something and to make sense of it.
In doing so we create the opportunity to gain a greater
understanding and a greater comprehension of what
something may mean.

Language sits at the heart of communication.

The health of any relationship will be reliant upon a good
level of communication and this includes the kind of internal
communication that we have within ourselves.

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