Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

4.8 | 1,145 ratings

Price: 13.78

Last update: 11-18-2024

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself.

“This book is worth thousands of dollars of counseling.”—Jonathan Pokluda, bestselling author and host of the Becoming Something podcast

How often have you heard, “Don’t let your emotions get the best of you”? But what if instead of ignoring our feelings, we noticed them, named them, and let God use them to draw us closer to Himself and others?

Many of us need to unlearn damaging messages about our emotions. We’ve been taught, for example, that emotions are untrustworthy, when, in fact, God can use them to help us see where we need His healing.

In Untangle Your Emotions, Jennie Allen uses scientific research, biblical insight, and her own story to help you

● exchange stuffing, dismissing, or minimizing your emotions for a five-step process to know what you feel and what to do about it

● debunk the myth that feelings are sinful by learning how emotional maturity leads to deeper connection with God and others

● live emotionally healthy by applying biblical wisdom and therapeutic research that works whether you self-identify as “emotional” or not

● sit with feelings that are confusing and painful by discovering the depth of God’s love and compassion for you

Feelings aren’t something to fix; they are something to feel. As we discover how to name and navigate our emotions, we’ll learn how they can draw us closer to the God who built us—soul, mind, and heart.

Amanda Glass

Very good and encouraging.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024

I really like Jennie Allen. Her books are an easy read. She knows how to keep it flowing. This book, in particular, gave me a sense of confirmation. It's okay to feel.

Sunny Rowe

GREAT GROUP STUDY BOOK

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2024

Oh sure, you can read this by yourself, but it is so much better with a group. That way you build friends, supporters and gain multiplied wisdom. It's easy to read, yet reaches down to explore emotions and anxieties.

Miriam K.

The depth is in the APPLICATION

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2024

This book was amazing! I have seen some mixed reviews about it, and I think I figured out why. This isn't a book that you can just read and consume the information. The depth of this book is in the application of what she shares.
I went through it with several friends over the course of 4-ish months and it was such a challenge to be so honest and vulnerable. Jennie provides discussion questions, Journaling prompts, scripture and a podcast, so no matter how you learn, there are resources available to help you on your journey. So good!!

KAllen

So timely and helpful

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024

I love Jennie’s heart…for discipleship, for the Lord and for longing to bring others along on the journey to be ever closer to Him. This book was so helpful in bringing together the theology and the science in how we’re designed to feel and for it to be what draws us to Him and to each other. As part of the bigger journey He has me on right now in learning to feel again, this was Holy Spirit timing in having the honour and joy of being part of an early reading group, having pre-ordered the book. I loved it so much that I’m currently running it as a book study with a group of women who are benefiting as much as I did. Thank you, Jennie, for going first and encouraging us all to follow. My life with my Saviour and Lord is richer because of it and my life with my core people is deeper

BlessedCookie

Grab your girlfriends, it's book club time!

Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2024

This is my 3rd Jennie Allen book and I cannot wait to share it with my friends in our book club! The author invites you along as she discusses her journey of "untangling emotions". I appreciated the author's tenderness and vulnerability. She shares personal examples of her own life allowing the reader to get comfortable and join in on figuring out why they might feel a particular way, or why they gave a particular reaction. What was quite enjoyable about this book - was its relatability. I could envision myself there talking with the author! There was minimal "psychoanalysis" jargon and that (for me) kept it real and inviting. I can't wait till my next book club to discuss it.

DFC

Love Jennie Allen books. This one is great.

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024

I listened to this book and then had to buy. It is helpful understanding my own emotions and navigating through them but also to understand others and walk in grace for them. Highly recommended.

Erinn Soltys

This could change your life.

Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2024

I’d like to write a longer review with a full summary of how this book has been life-changing, but for now will say that I pre-ordered this book and read it at the same time that I was going through the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course at my church. It was an excellent companion—EHS is like drinking from a fire hydrant, and this book is like having a kind and understanding mentor sit beside you, enter into your pain, and tell you all the things you wish someone would have told you as a child.

I bought several copies to give away because I think this topic is incredibly important and very misunderstood in the church (at least in my upbringing and experience). If we allow ourselves to feel emotions without shame, then we can get curious with God about what they are telling us and invite God and others into the journey of understanding and healing.

This is probably my favorite Jennie Allen book so far. ????

Audrey Longstreth

The book that will touch every aspect of your life...

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2024

Normally I wouldn't be drawn to a book about emotions. I'm a fairly even keeled, self-aware individual. I don't struggle with overpowering or lack of emotions. But I'm a big fan of Jennie Allen so when the opportunity to read this book in advance of it's launch came up, I took it. And I'm so glad I did.

First of all, like most of her books, reading this feels like you're sitting across from one another at a coffee shop and just having a really down to earth conversation. She drops some pretty honest and blunt truth in the pages but you never feel like you're being preached at or talked down to because you don't know these things already. You feel like a friend caring for another friend.

As I read I really started to realize maybe I'm not as emotionally stable as I thought. She gave words to things I never knew how to describe about myself. But more than that she gave practical, helpful knowledge and tools to move forward in it. I have found myself repeating the steps in hard moments. Reminding myself to not control but to pause, name it, feel it etc. I've done it by myself, as I parent, as a spouse, in a church setting. Emotions are part of our lives and this book opened my eyes to all the ways I was not embracing this vital part of who God made me to be.

Whether you're a Christian or not, what's in this book has the potential to be life transforming. Read it. Talk about it. Share it. DO IT!

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