Social/Emotional Learning Worksheet #2- How to Tell Yourself the Truth

Social/Emotional Learning is about developing awareness of what is emotions, how to process them, and how to examine our thoughts so that we can better heal ourselves.

This material comes from the workbook The Book of You- a social/emotional workbook by Dr. Donny. Dr. Donny is a teacher of social/emotional learning, sociology, Buddhism, and counseling who currently teaches at CSU East Bay in the Bay Area, California. This work blends current research in trauma and childhood psychology with mindfulness meditation to offer any person a direct, easy read that they can engage in to learn more about themselves. Each exercise takes between 20 minutes to an hour, and can be used by teachers, counselors, students, or anyone who would like to learn about their feelings.

In this worksheet, students learn an expansive, emotions-focused way to communicate what is true for them. By moving through anger, hurt, fear, understanding, and love, we can search all our difficult feelings and find ways to promote a larger understanding of how we see the world and our mental health.