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Untangling Emotions

J Alasdair Groves and Winston T Smith

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Untangling Emotions

J Alasdair Groves and Winston T Smith

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Our emotions are complex. Some of us seem able to ignore our feelings, while others feel controlled by them. But most of us would admit that we don’t always know what to do with how we feel.

The Bible teaches us that our emotions are an indispensable part of what makes us human—and play a crucial role in our relationships with God and others. Exploring how God designed emotions for our good, this book shows us how to properly engage with our emotions—even the more difficult ones like fear, anger, shame, guilt, and sorrow—so we can better understand what they reveal about our hearts and handle them wisely in everyday moments.

Title

Untangling Emotions
Author(s)

J Alasdair Groves and Winston T Smith
ISBN

9781433557828
Format

Paperback
Publisher

Crossway
Topic

Holiness, Anxiety & Mental Health
Audience

Adults
Pages

240
Published

01/03/2019

J Alasdair Groves

J. Alasdair Groves (MDiv, Westminster Theological Seminary) serves as the executive director for the New England branch of the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation (CCEF). He is also the director of CCEF's School of Biblical Counseling.

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Winston T Smith

Winston T. Smith, M.Div., is a faculty member and counselor at CCEF (the Christian Counseling & Educational Foundation), has extensive experience as a marriage and family counselor, and teaches seminary students how to counsel couples. He is the author of the minibooks, Divorce Recovery: Growing and Healing God’s Way; Help for Stepfamilies: Avoiding the Pitfalls and Learning to Love; It’s All About Me: The Problem with Masturbation; Who Does the Dishes? Decision Making in Marriage; and Burned Out? Trusting God with Your “To-Do” List.

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Overall rating

5.0 based on 2 reviews

Untangling Emotions

Some people steamroll their emotions with truth, while others let their emotions run wild. Groves and Smith write that both approaches miss the point. God made emotions intricately connected to body and soul, and people should engage their emotions as a way to grow. This means identifying the emotion, examining its cause and whether it is a valid response, and then acting accordingly. The authors give excellent illustrations from their counseling experiences, and the clear writing and practical points make this book a pleasure to read. They speak about emotions precisely. For example, our culture values feeling good, but sometimes feeling grieved or angry is a godly response and will come more deeply with spiritual maturity.

Charissa Koh

Untangling Emotions

This was an excellent read, full of the practical wisdom and applied theology I'd expect from counsellors and authors, Winston Smith and Alasdair Groves. Each page is packed full of gospel-centred truth and hope to help us navigate the often difficult area of our emotional lives. The book is divided into three helpful sections 1) Understanding emotions 2) Engaging emotions 3) Engaging the hardest emotions The authors provide an opening theology of emotions which display part of our image-bearing status before a feeling God. Groves & Smith, engage wisely with the culture around us which tends towards being led by emotions but also warns against a stoic approach to dealing with emotions too. The book provides a brilliant balance of understanding the reality and power of peoples' experience of emotions with what is biblically right and true / wrong and false in that experience. There are many illustrations given to show the practical application of what they write based on many years of counselling experience from both authors at CCEF. There authors also share examples from their own lives which really adds to the very real and personal nature of the book. Most importantly, the book views the subject of emotions through the lens of scripture and it is Christ centred on every page. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed. They get right to the heart of emotions which is both challenging at a personal level and helpful when walking along side others.