7 Signs You're Growing Emotionally

Identify the signs of emotional growth and learn strategies to cultivate emotional intelligence to continue improving your emotional well-being.

In today's post, I outline 7 signs that you're maturing emotionally:

1. Understanding that 2 things can be true at the same time.

2. Pausing and choosing to act differently rather than following your knee-jerk reactions when emotionally activated.

3. Accepting that sometimes we are the villain in someone else's story, and that they don't need to hear our side of the story.

4. Understanding that it's less about doing things without feeling scared but more about how to do things even though you're scared.

5. Holding yourself accountable for your emotions, not lashing out at others even when they try to push your buttons.

6. Accepting what might be right for you may not be right for others.

7. Letting go of trying to convince people whose actions continuously hurt you of your worth.

Before we take a deep dive into today's post on growing emotionally, let's take a look at what it means to grow emotionally:

Emotional Growth: Developing Understanding, Expression, and Management of Emotions

Growing emotionally means improving our emotional intelligence and ability to understand, express, and healthily manage our emotions. It means to no longer suppress our emotions but to feel them healthily while not lashing out at others and blaming others, for example.

To grow emotionally means to engage in self-reflection, self-awareness, self-regulation, compassion, and empathy toward others and ourselves. Overall, people who focus on their emotional well-being have better relationships, engage in healthy communication, and have healthy relationships with themselves.

Want concrete steps to grow emotionally?

Read through the in-depth explanations for each point of today’s post, implement the step-by-step instructions and use the self-reflection questions to work through your emotions: