What I thought about the Book:
I loved it! While I was reading, I felt like I was having a conversation with Jennie. Through her writing, the author radiates compassion toward her readers and a desire to help her readers find emotional health. This book kept me engaged and was a fast-paced read.

What Stood Out to Me:

I appreciated the author's note on mental health. The author was not shy in sharing her experience in therapy, and she encourages readers to get outside help if they are deeply struggling.

One pathway to emotional healing is sharing our feelings with others. The author discussed how to start communicating our emotions with others and in response to others.
She mentioned that many of us often share our thoughts in response to someone sharing a struggle rather than sharing how their story made us feel. She states that communicating how we feel upon hearing someone's struggle helps them feel seen and understood- how powerful!
This information was a takeaway for me, and I cannot wait to start communicating my feelings more than my thoughts. I believe this step will build more connections with others and strengthen relationships.

Jennie noted the scripture when Jesus wept. Her insight into why Jesus wept, though Jesus knew he would raise Lazarus from the dead, felt powerful to me. The author explained that Jesus wept to model sharing in each other's burdens.

"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." - Galatians 6:2

Jennie mentions that emotions are not sinful, but what we do with them can lead to sin.

I loved her insight into how our emotions help us to connect with God and others.

True to Jennie Allen form, Untangle Your Emotions, is a honest a direct look at the emotions we experience. She explains how not recognizing and expressing our emotions stymie is, ways many of us push our emotions down, and then goes into how we can improve our ability to notice and work through our emotions.
Jennie Allen backs up her research with Scripture and often points out how awesome it is that science so often follows Scripture. There are much wisdom to be found in Untangle Your Emotions.

I LOVED this book so much! I wish I had this years ago. It helped to heal my relationship with my emotions and set me on a path for a healthier relationship with God. Jennie always writes something that speaks to my soul and her book “Anything” has been one I return to time & time again. I will be rereading “Get Out of Your Head” shortly and am excited to apply the new insights Jennie shared here. So good & highly recommend this one!

Jennie Allen is a fantastic author, speaker, and founder of IF Gathering. I've enjoyed her previous books, so I was looking forward to this one as well. "Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What To Do About It" is Allen's newest book, which centers around the assertion that our feelings are not meant to be fixed or beaten back. Rather, we need to be willing to listen to what our feelings are trying to tell us. Our feelings are important, as they are what helps us connect to others and to God. While oftentimes Christians are convinced that having feelings is sinful, Allen encourages us that feelings themselves are not sinful, but rather, it's what we do with them that can be sinful. She asserts that, in order to untangle our emotions, we much notice, name, feel, share and choose them.

This was an excellent resource for anyone who wants to understand how to deal with the emotions they feel. This was a very helpful and encouraging book, and one I would highly recommend! Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Feelings and emotions have long been regarded as taboo for the Church. Basically we are taught to just get over our heartbreak and disappointments and move on. I have always wondered why God gave us feelings if God didn’t want us to feel anything. In reading the latest from Jennie Allen, “Untangle Your Emotions,” I saw and learned a different perspective on feelings and it’s not all bad. I highly recommend this to ones struggling with striving to cover up their feelings.

I received an advanced readers copy from Waterbrook-Multnomah and Netgalley. Opinions are my own.

I've read a number of books on emotional health and wellness but thought this one was powerful coming from Jennie Allen. With her engaging writing and vulnerable sharing and simple to follow steps towards growing in emotional health, this book will be a staple on my bookshelf and quick to recommend for a long time. Thank you Jennie Allen for your humility in sharing some of your personal growth in this area. And thank you to NetGalley for an advance copy.

Had a hard time knowing what to rate this and maybe it’s because I had an internal battle the entire time I was reading it. So much I agree with because the church is really bad at letting people express their feelings sometimes. However, I did find this book pretty repetitive and awfully similar but not as good as Get Out of Your Head which is also by Jennie Allen. I technically give this 3.5 starts but rounded up for Goodreads.

Thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah and Netgalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!

"We think God is waiting for us to pull ourselves together, but actually He is waiting for us to come to Him."

This book was a good, quick read. Jennie has a way of making you feel like you are sitting at a table, enjoying a cup of coffee, and talking about life. I wish that I had read this book 10 years ago when I thought that I was too emotional, too sad, too mad, too feely. Jennie reminds us that feelings come from God, they are not sinful to feel.

I believe this book is coming at a great time, we hear it all the time "the whole has gone mad", and it has. But that is okay when you have a God who has it under control. It is ok to feel.

Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book, I have always enjoyed reading what Jennie writes.

If you're a fan of Jennie Allen's previous books, you will enjoy this one too. It gets to the heart of emotions and emphasizes their importance as Jesus showed emotions as well.

Grab a cup of tea, get comfy and get ready to have an engaging conversation with Jennie Allen. Untangle Your Emotions is like having a conversation with one of your people (if you haven't read her book about finding your people). Jennie's writing flows like an easy conversation with a great friend.

As a nutritionist, I can say that un-dealt with emotions store themselves in our bodies leading to a whole host of ailments. I can't begin to tell how important it is to address your mental health and your physical health.

As a child and teenager, I dealt with my emotions by stuffing them in mental boxes. By adulthood, I became an expert at compartmentalizing my mental stuff and stashing it away. It works until it doesn't then our bodies force us to deal with the unpleasantness we've hidden away and ignored for years.

While I didn't walk away with as much of a biblical or spiritual understanding as I have from her previous books, I'm glad Jennie shared her story and is championing mental health. We all have baggage, it just depends on when and how we unpack it that makes a difference in our lives.

Thank you to NetGalley and WaterBrook aand Multnomah for the ARC.

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I have needed this book since I was 16 years old I am now 35. And it's not because I haven't discovered the connection between emotion and God it's because I WISH I had when I needed it the most when I felt shame because of emotions because I dealt with anxiety and was supposed to be a God believing, trusting woman. I was actually shamed by another person for dealing with anxiety and she mentioned it was basically because I wasn't doing enough in my faith I wasn't believing enough.. and that was the culprit to my very real anxiety. Obviously I learned (years later) that that wasn't true but what I wouldn't give to be able to hand this book to 16 year old me to reassure her that God is still for her even in the trenches and He isn't afraid of her emotions. I cannot wait to buy this book and to highlight all the parts I loved. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this Jennie I appreciate it tremendously.

Jennie Allen’s Untangle Your Emotions is a helpful and encouraging read for anyone struggling to manage all the feels. Although I’ve seen Jennie speak at If:Gathering, this is the first book of hers I’ve read. She writes like she’s sitting across from the table with you, a cup of coffee in hand, ready to listen and just doling out the wisdom she’s learned and applied over the years. After many years in counseling and working through my own emotions, I can’t say anything in this book was profoundly new. However, the way Jennie applies what she’s learned is practical and very supportive, like she’s a good friend who’s just looking out for your wellbeing. I love the way she weaves scripture and psychology together and I’ve used her tips on a daily basis. Definitely a worthwhile read.

I’d like to thank WaterBrook & Multnomah and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

In her signature conversational style, Jennie Allen dives deep into emotions. Why do we have them? Are they sinful?

I appreciated her approach to noticing, naming, feeling, sharing, and choosing emotions. Grounded in personal anecdotes, this book wasn’t as Scripturally deep as I would have preferred but I still learned a lot.

Untangle Your Emotions is a book I wish I had when I began my own journey of navigating emotional turmoil. Like Jennie, I realized I had the emotional vocabulary of a toddler and I did not know how to differentiate between emotional states. I voraciously read anything and everything to teach me all I needed to know about emotions. Like Jennie, I too am a fixer and my coping strategy of choice is getting thoroughly educated on the problem needing solving. This book does not offer a doctorate level dissertation on navigating your emotions, but it is so approachable and compassionate its message sinks in deeply and touches the tender places needing healing. Additionally, it does so from a Christian framework which is something I desperately longed for but had a hard time finding.

I also appreciated her nuanced approach to mental wellbeing. She opens the book by pointing out that in some cases, untangling emotional baggage will require the need of a professional; she then easily and casually shares that she has engaged the help of a counselor and encourages friends and family to do the same. This message is so needed. Counselors and therapists are incredible heroes, but employing the help of one is such a stigmatized topic in Christian circles that it makes it hard to be vulnerable and open to needing a therapist. She approaches brain health in the way that I’ve come learn to approach it- as a part of the body that can be both injured and healed from trauma which is a message of hope that can sometimes be hard to find. Accepting that injuries are real is necessary for some to begin the hard work of finding the right provider to treat the problem. Finding professional care for trauma was out of the scope of this book, but I appreciated the time and attention she gave to de stigmatizing the need of a therapist.

Her framework for learning how to feel is elementary, but this is such a young topic to explore within the church, that elementary education may be exactly what the church needs right now. She mentions briefly looking for other similar resources and coming up blank. I have also looked and while I am pleased that there are more Christian based options for mental health healing today than when she started writing this book, she is correct. This topic has been largely left alone by theologians past. She mentions this book was written for all people, but I am not convinced men will relate to it quite as well as a woman might given that many of her stories are told from a woman’s POV. That’s not to say there’s nothing valuable for a man to glean from this book, I just am not sure that it will speak to men as effectively as to women.

She ended the book with a section on the kinds of ways we can support our mental health physically to resource your brains healing and processing capacity: drinking water, getting proper nutrition, moving your body, feeling connected to your people (feeling emotions in connection), sleeping, etc. I am glad she had this section included because it is so important to resource your brain when so much healing can sometimes be necessary. I wish this chapter was placed before the emotional processing section because knowing there IS something tangible we can do to care for ourselves well would have been an encouragement before embarking on the sometimes scary, sometimes confusing - sometimes it even feels downright imaginary - process of learning emotions.

I’d like to thank Waterbrook & Multnomah and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Jennie Allen's Untangle Your Emotions will challenge you, encourage uou and change you. She shares personal experiences in her own journey and helpful tips on working through your own issues. Highly Recommended for anyone wanting to grow their faith and emotional capacity

Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It by Jennie Allen was an exploration of the feelings humans have. The author does a pretty good survey of human emotions, why we have them, and how normal they are. I really, really wanted to like this book more. I found it to be mostly a discourse on the issue of emotions and not a lot of actual ways of untangling your emotions. The author is candid and open about her own emotions so in a sense it is a bit of an emotion memoir. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

This book was so good and helpful. I am so glad I read it. I plan to use these tips to help my life from now on.

*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own *

In all honesty, this book wasn't at all what I was expecting. At times I felt as though she was giving us cliff notes from her therapy sessions or what what she learned in in the first weeks of Psych 101. Her personal stories were borderline whiney and gossipy. I had to skim many of the stories because it was too much. This book also felt as though I was reading a Brene Brown book, rather than a book from a Christian author.

The author continuously mentions, "Before we dive into the process." over and over. One would think that due to this build up of the "process" (which isn't revealed till around page 101) that it would be some amazing tool to include in our daily lives but unfortunately, that was not the case.

As far as the Christian aspect, she at times makes it seem as though she is just like God, that she should take on the same characteristics as Our Lord and Savior. Just because God felt and experienced things doesn't at all mean that we need to place ourselves right there next to Him on HIS throne. He's God and we are His children. Period. Lastly, I wish she would have just turned to God in her moments of trouble instead of placing Dr. C upon the throne. At times her worship of this doctor was a bit unsettling.

Thank you Netgalley for allowing me the opportunity to read this book.

Thanks to WaterBrook & Multnomah, WaterBrook for the advance copy of this book!

Jennie Allen has such a fantastic way of writing completely engaging, but powerful and transformative, books. Untangle Your Emotions is no exception. Jennie teaches us how emotions are meant to help and inform us, be felt, connect us with others and to God, and to provide healing and change in our lives. I love how she also discussed some of the nuances in the church surrounding emotions (i.e. they're feminine, should be suppressed, or are sinful to feel). Absolutely loved this book!

Classic Jennie Allen book! I love reading her advice and stories. They are always heartfelt and brave. This was no exception. I found it to be a quick and fast-paced book. Emotions are unraveling in my own life and this book helped me to make sense of them, Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. Five stars.