Feeling Wheel
What feeling confident is like
Confidence is feeling sure of yourself and your ability to cope. It shows in how you speak, how you decide and how you handle things going wrong.
Confident or capable?
Confident is a general sense of self-assurance. Capable is narrower, knowing you have the skills for a particular task. Read more about feeling capable.
Finding confident on the feelings wheel
On the Feeling Wheel, confident sits in the Calm group. Start in the middle of the wheel with calm, then move outwards to confident. If it's close but not quite right, the other calm words below may fit better. It's also normal to feel more than one thing at once.
Other words in the Calm group
Calm words describe feeling steady, safe and able to cope.
- Relaxed Feeling free from tension and at ease
- Peaceful Feeling calm and undisturbed
- Powerful Feeling strong and in control
- Relieved Feeling reassured after stress has passed
- Grounded Feeling stable and balanced emotionally
- Resilient Feeling able to recover from challenges
- Capable Feeling able and competent
- Content Feeling peaceful and satisfied
- Settled Feeling at ease with where things are
Name what you're feeling
Feeling Wheel puts all 118 of these words on one wheel. Tap the ones that fit, add a note if you like, and see your patterns over time. Free on iPhone and Android.