To build self intimacy skills, and to be able to effectively share your feelings with your partner, it helps to accurately describe your experience.  These emotion words can help you clearly identify your feelings so you may respond with your own self-soothing.  They can also be very useful for accurately expressing your feelings to your partner.

If you are interested in getting closer to your partner, you may wish to consider taking my Recovering Intimacy in Your Relationship seminar, given by conference call.

To open or download this list a one-page printable PDF of these words, click on the attached file at the top of this page.

Afraid

Aggressive

Angry

Anticipation

Awe

Bad

Boiling

Brave

Calm

Carefree

Careful

Chicken

Clumsy

Cold

Comfortable

Confused

Contemplative

Contempt

Content

Cowardly

Crazy

Curious

Dejected

Depressed

Disgusted

Disappointment

Down

Dread

Eager

Ecstatic

Embarrassed

Energetic

Enthusiastic

Excited

Exhausted

Fabulous

Fine

Flattered

Free

Frightened

Frustrated

Furious

Glad

Good

Grateful

Great

Hateful

Happy

Helpful

Helpless

Hopeless

Horrified

Hot

Hurt

Hysterical

Important

Impressed

Indifferent

Invisible

Itchy

Joy

Kind

Lazy

Like an idiot

Like I'm drowning

Lonely

Love

Mad

Mean

Miserable

Nauseated

Needed

Nice

Nuts

Overjoyed

Overwhelmed

Optimistic

Out of control

Poor

Positive

Powerless

Protective

Proud

Puzzled

Rage

Regret

Remorse

Resentful

Rich

Sad

Safe

Satisfied

Scared

Sexy

Shocked

Shy

Sick

Silly

Sleepy

Sly

Smart

Sorry

Strong

Stupid

Surprised

Submissive

Terrible

Thanksful

Tickled

Tired

Trust

Uncomfortable

Unhappy

Unimportant

Uninspired

Upbeat

Upset

Vulnerable

Warm

Wary

Weak

Wealthy

Weird

Well

Willful

Worried

Worthless