Learn to Manage Your Feelings

You can learn to manage your feelings better with God’s help. That’s what I’m talking about on my Encouragement for Today devotion, and if you’re joining me from there, welcome! Keep reading to enter a book giveaway and learn about my book launch team.

If you haven’t yet read my devotion, Let’s Stop Hurting Our Own Feelings, I recommend you read it first.

Learn to Manage Your Feelings

I remember writing in my junior high journals – “Life is just so COMPLICATED!” Emotion after emotion jumbled together in my teenage mind. I didn’t learn to turn my hurt feelings over to God first until I was in my 30s. But that choice made all the difference in my peace level.

Here are several helpful lessons on managing feelings I learned through Bible study, small group meetings, and therapy:

1. God created us to be emotional. Our emotions are gifts from him. They make us human and also reflect our Creator. Feelings are not to be suppressed, but rather managed with his help.
2. Scripture includes the full range of feelings. We see all the emotions not only in Bible people, but many emotions in God himself. Reading the Bible will help you recognize that you aren’t alone in feeling the way you do. A good place to start is by reading the Psalms every day.
3. Feelings can be managed. We don’t have control over many things in life, but we do have control over our feelings. Our feelings don’t have to control us. That single truth helped me recover from codependency, depression and hopelessness.

How have you learned to manage your feelings with God’s help? I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

Books to Help You Manage Your Feelings

I’ve read many books that have helped me manage my feelings much better than before. I have a list of recommended reads for you in my Amazon storefront. Check the list out HERE.

Join My Launch Team!

My new book, Transforming Your Thought Life for Teens: Renew Your Mind with God, will help teens manage their emotions as they learn to control their thought lives with God’s help.

I’m now building my launch team for this book, which will publish Oct. 12, 2021. Please check out THIS PAGE to learn more about joining the launch team, and watch the video below for more info!

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Learn to Manage Your Feelings

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