Success in virtually every aspect of life - career, friendships, love, family - is determined mainly by one thing: how you deal with your feelings. In your most challenging moments, did you fly off the handle? Were you paralysed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviours that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish?
How you responded likely determined what happened next. But the way we handle our emotions is not, as many believe, a fixed part of ourselves. Rather, it is a set of skills and techniques that must be taught and refined across our lives.
Marc Brackett examines his own experiences with emotions, explains the latest science of emotion and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies to help readers nurture healthy relationships, achieve challenging goals and attain greater wellbeing. At the heart of his message is acceptance; there is no such thing as a bad emotion - only the ones you don't understand and don't yet know how to direct in positive, intentional ways.
We all have the power to decide how we will respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills, Dealing With Feeling will help you become the best version of yourself.
