It's important to express your feelings! Keeping your thoughts and emotions bottled up can lead to negative consequences like anxiety, stress, and depression. By expressing your feelings, you can gain clarity, improve your relationships, and reduce stress.

1 Recognise the reasons for your feelings - Each feeling has a reason for being there. Different emotions may help us to learn something, prompt us to think more deeply about why we're feeling that way or lead, us to understand ourselves better.

2 Share your emotions - Talking about how we feel with someone we trust and reaching out to let someone know how we feel helps us so much. We don't feel alone in how we're feeling, we can get a clearer sense of what is bothering us and can get support to work through our feelings.

3 Get creative - Writing, music, art, sport, reading and hobbies can really help us express our feelings. If we're feeling angry, putting on a loud tune and singing, or watching a film where we can relate to how the character is feeling can really help us feel better.

4 Give it time - Recognise that it takes time to learn about our feelings and how we respond to different feelings, but if we take a bit of time to learn the most helpful way to work with them, we have those tools for life whatever comes our way.

Don't be afraid to open up and share your thoughts with others.