Feelings, who knew?

Last nite in class, we were discussing how to build a helping relationship. It was a great topic, laying down more and more information about how to be there for folks in meaningful, caring ways. In the handout is a picture of a Feeling Wheel. Now this little chart has a total of 78 feelings identified! Imagine my surprise. For years I've felt (there's that word again) that I have a pretty broad, full range of feelings, but my number is more like 4. Namely tired, thirsty, hungry and horny. And I guess you could add like and dislike to these. For example, I don't like being thirsty, and I do like drinking when I'm thirsty. Well, you don't need me to go on with the other 3. Once again, it all starts to make sense, this hole education thing! Talk about learning something new every day! I feel really good about this. Sorry this image is too small for you to see all 78 feelings, but you can kind of get the point. I stole this image from a Psychotherapist's website. Hope you don't mind Josephine.