Untangle Your Emotions helped me identify and improve all the negative emotions that I deal with daily.

The premise of the book is great, especially as a follow up from her previous. I find it hard to review a book like this because you really could see her emotions on the page, and feeling emotions WAS what the book was all about. I just didn’t walk away with anything profound to help me in where I am in my life. I didn’t sense any advice further than to make sure I’m acknowledging and feeling my feelings. It's not something I'd find myself reading again.

Clear and compassionate guide to emotional wellness. Allen provides practical tools for identifying feelings with remarkable simplicity. My favorite part was her "emotion mapping" exercise that transformed how I process difficult feelings. Highly recommend for anyone seeking emotional clarity and healthier relationships!

Of course, the popular Jennie Allen will have good reviews on her books. She's beautiful and articulate along with being a popular speaker for things like IF Gathering and Passion. However, no amount of charisma should cause us to overlook the theology of anyone. The self-help messages aren't what Christianity is all about. We aren't a people of self-help. We are a people of dependence and the need for a Savior. This is the gospel. No amount of worldly self-help cloaked in Christian words will change our need for Jesus.
Because we are created in the image of God and then sinned, we need our debt paid. No amount of good works can save us so paying the penalty, Jesus died and rose again.

The gospel of Jesus is what changes us. Jesus is what changes our emotions. We don't need more self-help advice.

*I received a dARC through NetGalley from the publisher in exchange for my review.

I liked it and felt like there were good reminders/good advice, but nothing new. I still walked away feeling uplifted even if I didn't necessarily learn anything new.

3.5 stars

In Untangle Your Emotions, Jennie Allen explored our emotions and how to understand your feelings. She explained how she experienced a mixture of different feelings she had to discuss with her own counselor. Her daughter had recently gotten married and they had plans to travel around and she was planning on moving away. This caused her great fear and she realized that she didn’t want to be alone. She recalled her husband experiencing a stroke and had high blood pressure. The doctors stated that he was a walking heart attack and needed to take meds and rest at home. She admitted that she was afraid of living alone. She knew her other three kids would move out eventually too. She shared how she wanted to fix things and hated to sit with her feelings. She learned in the process that feelings are meant to be felt. This helps us to connect to God. In the book, she looked at Jesus and how he must have felt diverse emotions throughout his ministry. She enlightened how all of our emotions have a purpose and it connects us to God. She revealed how David was able to feel and live out his emotions, he knew God could handle it.


This book is a great one discussing our many emotions we all will encounter. It helps you to know what they are our and how to handle each one. I liked how open she was in sharing her own stories and how she learned to interact with each feeling.

I don't think there's been a Jennie Allen book I haven't given 5 stars to but I especially love this one. Get Out Of Your Head was life-changing to me and this follow up is the perfect companion.

"Feelings were never meant to be fixed; feelings are meant to be felt" pg 35

"Controlling our emotions is not the goal. Healing them and expressing them in a healthy way is." Pg 72

Just some of my favorite takeaways from the book.

Read this book at just the right time! Practical, gentle, yet hard-hitting truths. Well done, yet again, Jennie Allen!

Great resource for people struggling to deal with their emotions and process perceived issues versus reality. Much like her previous book, Get Out of Your Heard, the reader is left with tangible action points to try, Scripture references for those difficult moments, and the encouragement that engaging with mental health professionals is okay.

I’d like to write a longer review with a full summary of how this book has been life-changing, but for now will say that I pre-ordered this book and read it at the same time that I was going through the Emotionally Healthy Spirituality course at my church. It was an excellent companion—EHS is like drinking from a fire hydrant, and this book is like having a kind and understanding mentor sit beside you, enter into your pain, and tell you all the things you wish someone would have told you as a child.

I bought several copies to give away because I think this topic is incredibly important and very misunderstood in the church (at least in my upbringing and experience). If we allow ourselves to feel emotions without shame, then we can get curious with God about what they are telling us and invite God and others into the journey of understanding and healing.

This is probably my favorite Jennie Allen book so far. 🙂

This was a really helpful and insightful book to read and understand my own emotions and how to process them in a healthy way. Highly recommend.

Jennie Allen has provided a heartfelt, deeply personal story, and informative of how emotions work in our body and what we can do about the ones we have trouble with. It is beautifully written with lots of reflections for the reader and lots of things to try. I found this personally to be a wonderful book that not only helped me but I hope to recommend to many others to give a try.

This book is such a great read that everyone should read to help their daily lives. Everyone could use help on how to deal with their emotions as well as how to understand what their emotions mean.

Thank you NetGalley and WaterBrook & Multnomah for the ARC (which I’m so delayed on I listened to via audiobook instead). I found this to be a helpful guide in identifying one’s emotions, as well as an inspiring Christian-based read. If you’re new on the journey of emotional healing I believe this book can be helpful for you. I am fairly deep into my journey, and therefore didn’t take as much away from it as the average reader probably would. However, I do recommend this book to people of faith who want to strengthen their emotional lives.

Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen is a practical and insightful guide to understanding and managing the complex world of emotions. Drawing on biblical wisdom, personal anecdotes, and psychological insights, Allen offers a compassionate and accessible approach to emotional well-being. She helps readers navigate the often overwhelming swirl of feelings that can accompany life's challenges, offering both spiritual encouragement and actionable steps toward emotional clarity.

The book is structured around the idea that emotions, when untangled and properly understood, can lead to personal growth, healing, and stronger relationships. Allen addresses common emotional struggles—like anxiety, frustration, sadness, and guilt—and encourages readers to explore the root causes of these emotions, understand their impact, and find healthy ways to respond. Her writing is relatable, engaging, and filled with practical exercises that encourage self-reflection and growth.

What stands out about Untangle Your Emotions is its combination of spiritual guidance and psychological tools. Allen emphasizes the importance of aligning one's emotional life with faith, while also providing concrete strategies for emotional regulation, making it suitable for both those seeking a faith-based perspective and anyone looking for practical tools to manage their emotions.

Overall, Untangle Your Emotions is an empowering and thought-provoking book, offering a roadmap for emotional self-awareness, healing, and spiritual growth. It’s an excellent resource for readers looking to gain a deeper understanding of their emotions and cultivate healthier, more balanced lives.

I love anything by Jennie Allen!!!!!!

Emotions are such a tricky thing to dive into and wade through. Jennie Allen, is an amazing author who takes you to the next level of understanding emotions and even untangling them. With proven techniques, we can wade through those tricky emotions, figure out how to interpret and come out better and stronger.

Jennie Allen writes amazing books about anxiety. She has a way of presenting her real life and people that she knows in a more relatable way.

I did this book as part of a book club and we honestly felt this book read more like an autobiography than a book club book. It was fine I feel like I did get some things out of the book but overall I wanted it to be more God centered and more internal work

I love her other book on anxiety and was excited to read this! It did not keep my interest like that other book but I still think it would be good for lots of other people.

Jennie Allen tackles an emotional topic, our emotions in “Untangle Your Emotions.” Feelings drive a lot of our decisions, both right and wrong. Because of the right and wrong decisions, our lives can become very complicated. We can withdraw into a shell or respond confidentially projecting ourselves into crowded rooms smiling and talking.
Jennie addresses both sides of these decisions and helps us to learn to deal with these feelings. By using Biblical perspectives, Jennie dispels the fear of our ups and downs. We learn to deal with and even enjoy our emotions as we read this book.