“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. What does it mean if the vastness of human emotion and experience can only be expressed as mad, sad or happy”. Ludwig Wittgenstein in Brene Brown’s Atlas of the Heart If you take a moment to stop and think about how you are feeling you will often come up with one of three words happy, sad, or angry. This is the average number of emotions named by over 7 thousand people in Brown’s research. Surprised? I was. It made me wonder about all the other emotions, frightened, joyful, disappointed frustrated, bored … where were they. In her brilliant book, Atlas of the Heart, Brown identifies 87 emotions and is emphatically clear that this is not an exhaustive list. So why do people, on average, identify just three? Brown suggests that we use these three emotions, happy, sad, and angry to categorise our experiences very broadly. And this makes sense to me, often when I feel frustrated, I will label this as angry....