1. Expressing Your Emotions
Life Skills

2. -- Emotions expressed by people in all cultures.
-- A reaction to a situation that involves your mind, body and behavior.
Primary Emotion
-- Emotions expressed by people in all cultures.

3. Happiness
Sadness
Fear
Anger

4. Guilt Love Shame Learned Emotions Examples:
-- These are emotions that are not expressed the same in every environment/culture.
Examples:
Guilt
Shame
Love

5. Personality and Self-Esteem
Life Skills

6. The Definition of Personality:
A set of behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and ways of thinking that are unique to an individual.
Ways your personality form are:
Heredity
Environment (family, friends, culture)

7. The Definition of Self-Esteem:
Your opinion of yourself; how much you respect and like yourself.
Think??
How can your self esteem affect your relationships and how you interact with others?

8. Benefits of High self-esteem:
You have a realistic view of yourself.
Closer relationships
You accept yourself for who you are.

9. Risks of Low self-esteem:
Little respect for yourself.
You judge yourself harshly
You have more of a fear for failure.
May be at a higher risk for using drugs, dropping out of school, becoming pregnant, or suffer from eating disorders.

10. Activity!!
SELL YOURSELF!!!  Make an ACROSTIC of your name! Get a piece of paper off the table. Use markers, colored pencils, pictures (draw or get from magazines) , to describe how wonderful you are!!! I WANT COLOR AND CREATIVITY! WORTH 50 PTS!!

11. L - Loving A - Appreciative S – Silly K - Kind E - Energetic E - Encouraging