The Nuance of Emotion

One piece of work I do regularly with my clients is help them better understand the nuance of their feelings/emotions.  Often someone will come in and tell me they feel "bad" or "pissed off" - perfectly legit ways to feel - but a little further digging into the context of the feelings often reveals that what they are actually experiencing is disappointment, frustration, hurt, sadness, etc or some combination of any of these.  What my client often lacks in these moments is a vocabulary to describe their emotions. Further than just lacking a vocabulary, they often lack a sensitivity to the nuance of these emotions, which is needed even before you can begin to attach a vocabulary to them...