I love the concept of this work! Thank you to NetGalley for the review copy. This level of intentionality in our healing is necessary and wise. Can’t wait to read this again!

"Energy Rising" is about how you can change painful situations by uncovering the root causes of how you react to those situations. The intended audience is people in leadership positions with a focus on business, but the author also gave examples from marriage, parenting, and other areas of life. Each chapter covered a different "code," with 5 focused on yourself (which change how you interact with others) and 3 on influencing others. She clearly explained each concept and gave questions to work through to help you implement each concept.

Among other things, she talked about naming what you fear will happen if you change your behavior and evaluating how likely it is that bad result will happen. Also, about changing your outlook from negative to positive (like from a discouraged 'no one understands what I'm trying to accomplish' to seeing it as a positive challenge resulting from 'I'm at the cutting edge'). She explained the root fear that you don't matter and aren't worthy of good things and about becoming aware of our sense of worth regardless of the situation. She covered how our brain tries to avoid uncertainty, but how it's better to become self-assured and be willing to say, "I don't know." She also explained how ways of dealing with life that you learned in childhood aren't necessarily helpful in adulthood and exercises to rewrite those patterns.

She then talked about why you don't need to always be the one who's right or have everyone's approval to be an effective leader. She also explained how to get people to follow your lead because they want to and to visualize how you want your relationships to look in the future. Overall, I found the topics covered to be interesting and helpful, so I would recommend this book to others.

From the book: "Your most enduring pain comes from what you already think about yourself--that you're not good enough, important enough, or worthy enough. And the thing about this pain is that you can never outrun what you believe about yourself."

What an incredibly powerful book! I feel like this was written with me in mind. It is so relatable for any reader – parents to business leaders and provides great directions on how to improve your emotional intelligence and use your energy powerfully. Rarely do I find books to be so grounded and enlightening with genuine help that I can apply to my own life. I wish I could give Energy Rising more than five stars.

"Energy Rising" by Julia DiGangi mixes together Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and neuropsychology to create the unique concept of neuroenergetic codes. The book offers valuable insights for navigating relationships with helpful examples scattered throughout. Ultimately, the book advocates for being true to yourself and digging deeper to reveal your real motivations, emphasizing that change begins from within. Do you really need to change, command or control that person you have a difficult relationship with or do you need to change your energy which will eventually improve the energy of the relationship? Do not dismiss the final chapter, it's a real rallying cry! Thanks Netgalley for the opportunity to review this eARC in exchange for my honest review on the book!

ARC NETGALLEY REVIEW

LOVED THIS. Easily written to allow one to work and read along with the book. Love books that show and give aid vs just dictating. This author was very knowledgeable about her concept and had validation behind them.

This book is written for everyone who struggles in dealing with emotion. I like that the author was able to explain the concepts of emorional pain and emotional power in a way that is practical and insightful. While reading the book I find myself relating to the things being discussed as I remember the stuggles I had during the height of the recent pandemic.

This is my honest review about the book.

One of great read about leadership!

As we know that being leader is such a complicated task. Some times we should control our anger when something didn't feel right, or we also should connect others emotion in order to achieve our goal.

However, how we can connect others emotion if we didn't understand ours?

This book has systematical writing about Emotional Energy, which made me understand "how emotional pain could happen" and "what happens in our brain when we start to feel negative?". It has neuroscience POV, but the author write it in easy words.

Also, this book made me reflect about my own emotion by every "tips" that she offers in her book.

After that, the discussion is about how to connect others emotion as leader".

This book is so insightful and give me new knowledge, especially about neuroscience things.

Thank you Netgalley and Harvard Business Review for the ARC!