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Printable series · No. 01

Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set

An original 3-ring feelings wheel with 75 words, a kids' faces wheel, a body map, a feelings thermometer, and the worksheets that make a wheel useful.

  • Feelings wheel
  • Emotion words
  • Body map

13 pages · US Letter PDF, print and fillable versions · For therapists, counselors, parents, teachers & anyone learning feelings words

Instant PDF download right after purchase (print and fillable versions). Questions or refunds: contact us. Checkout is by Stripe; the seller on your receipt is Advantage Coaching, LLC.

Clinician use included. Licensed for personal use, or one clinician using it with their own clients and students (print or share the PDF with people you serve). Please don't resell, redistribute, or upload to shared drives or marketplaces.

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Cover of the Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set printable

What’s inside

Most feelings wheels stop at the wheel. This set gives you an original 3-ring wheel (75 everyday words, including the low-energy feelings most wheels skip, like numb, drained, and flat) plus the pages that make it work: a body map, a 0 to 10 thermometer, a feelings and needs guide, a 'find the word' worksheet, a mixed feelings page, a weekly log, a word bank by intensity, and 12 conversation prompt cards. There is also a kids' faces wheel for younger clients. Color and black and white. Clinician use with your own clients is included, so no separate commercial license is needed.

  • 3-ring feelings wheel, color
  • Same wheel, black and white
  • Kids' faces feelings wheel
  • Feelings thermometer 0 to 10
  • Where I feel it: body map
  • Feelings and needs guide
  • Find the word worksheet
  • Mixed feelings worksheet
  • Weekly check-in log
  • Feelings word bank by intensity
  • 12 conversation prompt cards
All 13 pages, and who each is for
  1. Cover · cover
  2. Start here · Everyone
  3. Feelings wheel, color · Teen + adult
  4. Feelings wheel, black and white · Teen + adult
  5. Kids' faces wheel · Kids 4 to 10
  6. Feelings thermometer · Everyone
  7. Where I feel it · Everyone
  8. Feelings and needs guide · Teen + adult
  9. Find the word · Teen + adult
  10. Mixed feelings · Teen + adult
  11. Weekly check-in log · Everyone
  12. Feelings word bank · Teen + adult
  13. Conversation prompt cards · Clinician, parent, partner
  • Preview of page 3, Feelings wheel, color, from Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set
    Page 3: Feelings wheel, color
  • Preview of page 5, Kids' faces wheel, from Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set
    Page 5: Kids' faces wheel
  • Preview of page 7, Where I feel it, from Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set
    Page 7: Where I feel it
  • Preview of page 8, Feelings and needs guide, from Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set
    Page 8: Feelings and needs guide
  • Preview of page 13, Conversation prompt cards, from Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set
    Page 13: Conversation prompt cards

How it’s used

Built for

  • Teens and adults building a feelings vocabulary, including the low-energy feelings most wheels skip
  • Kids, with the faces wheel and the thermometer
  • Therapists, school counselors, parents, and teachers who want more than a single wheel

A simple flow

  1. Start with the color wheel: begin in the center and move outward to a word that fits.
  2. Rate it on the 0 to 10 thermometer and mark where it shows up on the body map.
  3. Use the feelings and needs guide to ask what the feeling is asking for.
  4. Log a few check-ins a week, and pull a prompt card when talking is hard.

Informed by

From the PDF’s evidence snapshot (page 2): In a brain imaging study, putting feelings into words was linked with lower activity in the amygdala, a brain area involved in emotional reactions (Lieberman et al., 2007, Psychological Science, PMID 17576282). That is one lab study, not a promise. Naming is a first step, not a cure.

License: clinician use included

Clinician use included. Licensed for personal use, or one clinician using it with their own clients and students (print or share the PDF with people you serve). Please don't resell, redistribute, or upload to shared drives or marketplaces.

Get Feelings Compass: Feelings Wheel Set

Instant PDF download right after purchase (print and fillable versions). Questions or refunds: contact us. Checkout is by Stripe; the seller on your receipt is Advantage Coaching, LLC.

Mason’s own product; Therapist Front Page earns from these sales.

Created by Mason Anglin, PsyD, LMFT, MBA · LMFT #121211 · Registered Psychological Associate #PSB94029529

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