Instant USA Today Bestseller From Marc Brackett founding director of the Yale Center for
Emotional Intelligence and author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel comes an
essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives.
Success in virtually every aspect of life-career friendship love and family-is determined
mainly by one thing: how we deal with emotions. In your most challenging moments how did you
respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in
behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and
flourish? How you responded likely shaped what happened next. But emotion regulation isn't a
fixed trait as many believe. It is a set of skills and strategies that must be learned
practiced and refined over a lifetime. Marc Brackett examines his own challenges dealing with
emotions explains the latest science of emotion regulation and provides a set of practical
evidence-based strategies to help us use our feelings wisely to nurture healthy relationships
achieve ambitious goals and experience greater well-being. At the heart of his message is
acceptance: There are no bad emotions-only emotions we don't understand or know how to direct
in positive intentional ways. The good news? We all have the power to decide how we will
respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills we can increase our
chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. Dealing with Feeling will show you how
to work with your and others' emotions-not against them-so you can become the best version of
yourself and lift others up too.
