Dealing with Feeling

Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want

By: Ph.D. Marc Brackett

Narrated by: Ph.D. Marc Brackett

Written and read by 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

Start Emotion Regulation

I learned the term Emotion Regulation instead of the EQ, Emotional Intelligence. If EQ and EI were the concepts, this book on ER give the pratical way to be have more EQ and high EI. Nonetheless, applying to real life is the value of the book. So, I'll start applying ER skills today!

Too Choppy Short Sentences Audio Failure

I really wanted to love this book, but I couldn't get past the audio pacing. It felt like the author couldn't find a natural flow and sounded as if an AI was pacing it out. I would love to hear it read in a normal human-sounding voice. A pro audio reader would have caught this.

The kind of book I’ll go back to over and over again

Well researched and organized and presented in a way so as to provide actionable steps for those wanting to work toward managing their emotions in healthier and more productive ways. I can see myself going back to it multiple times over during my own growth and in raising my children.