Emotional capital is the wealth held in the felt life of relationship — both with self and with others — and the practiced capacity to feel, repair, acknowledge, and remain available to one's own experience.
Emotional capital was not part of 📝Charles Eisenstein's 📝Types of Capital framework as originally formulated. It sits adjacent to 📝Spiritual Capital (attention and presence) and 📝Social Capital (advocacy and voice), but names something distinct: the inner texture of relating itself. Where social capital is the wealth of having relationships, emotional capital is the wealth of being present to what happens inside them.
In practical accounting it shows up as the willingness to feel, name, repair, and remain accountable to one's own emotional life — and as the steady cultivation of relationships in which others are doing the same. Activations witnessed and integrated, gratitude received and offered, ruptures repaired, the 📝Relational Sovereignty of holding the self as primary partner: each is a deposit. Suppressed feeling, unspoken resentment, unprocessed activation, and chronic avoidance each draw the account down.
This is a local extension to the six formal 📝Types of Capital — added in the 📝Self-RADAR with MythOS framing so the weekly check-in can name the felt life as wealth alongside the practical capitals. Naming emotional capital insists that the inner work of being a person — the labor of feeling, repair, and relational presence — is not a private indulgence outside the economy. It is its substrate.