Yeah I hated it, felt like a little kid being taught how to name things. I mean I know there was a therapeutic reason but sucks when you can't name the feelings. I would come in and talk about this intense emotional reaction and think it was fear but turns out it was anger. Or sometimes I would name it correctly, in a vague sort of way, but would be corrected about the specific name. Like I would say I think I feel sad. And my therapist would, not immediately, but slowly let me know it was more of a "disappointed" kind of sadness.

All in all I found it helpful but also invalidating in some ways. Sometimes got on my nerves. But I literally asked the very same question once as well, "What is a feeling?" And once also had the urge to sing, "I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright!" That person knows how to name feelings just fine, lol.