I really loved this book!
I struggle from Anxiety and I had always felt like I was lacking in faith. Jennie expressed that anxiety is not about a lack of faith and that was so reassuring to hear.
I also liked how she touched on mental health issues. I have struggled with depression for most of my life and people suffering with these issues need more support !

This was very helpful for me personally to read .
Thank you to Waterbrook & Multnomar and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review

Annnd you officially lost me when you said people who don't go to the doctor because they don't have insurance should just... go. How tone deaf and what does that have to do with feelings??

Yes, I do consider myself a Christian, but no I did not realize this would be a faith based book. It overall was a bore and didn't provide any new information. It was particularly boring because the same information was just restated... a lot. This short of a book and reading it on Kindle, it should not have taken me a month to read it is all I'm sayin.

This arc was provided to me via NetGalley, thanks haha sorry I didn't like it at all.

I really appreciated the author's heart and intentions in writing this book and there were a few helpful takeaways but as a whole I felt like it didn't have a whole lot of substance and could have been condensed to an essay. The message is it is ok, healthy and spiritually edifying to recognize, feel and then deal with the myriad of emotions that arise on a daily basis instead of ignoring or running away from them.
I can see this book helpful for one who needs someone to lovingly and gently encourage them in their dealing with emotions and in getting help from a physician or counselor but not for one who needs alot of practical help and understanding.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read it in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Untangle Your Emotions is the follow up book to Get Out of Your Head. Both books focus on equipping readers with skills to foster a spiritual and healthy mental state. With a rudimentary approach, Untangle Your Emotions tackles how not to ignore our feelings, rather notice them, name them, and allow them to navigate us closer to God.

Jennie Allen weaves personal stories and experiences with practical advice while reestablishing truths about the purpose of emotions (to be felt and not pushed down), God’s perspective on emotions (He gave them to us, not to shame us) and how to process our emotions (God uses our emotions to draw us closer to Himself and others). Jennie gently reminds us all, feelings are made to be felt and are not something to fix, because when taken to God, He can use them to help us see where we need His healing. “We think God is waiting for us to pull ourselves together, but actually He is waiting for us to come to Him and fall apart (Allen, 2024).”

I love this new book by Jennie Allen. She is a new author for me and I am going back to read her earlier books. I like how this book examines why you may feel the way you do, how you can work through those emotions, and just that it’s ok to have the emotions in the first place. She shared experiences about her husbands depression and her feelings about her daughter getting married. There are scriptures as well to correlate with what she is saying and with what you may be feeling. Nice easy reading and self help book women will love.

This was a helpful and practical book. I think to truly make progress in untangling your emotions as the author (and title) states, you would want a workbook or journal as well as time and space to really walk through and process. As I was reading, I found myself naturally incorporating some of the things suggested throughout my day. It's a book I will refer back to.

Wowowow this book was actually so much better than I imagined it was going to be. It took me a little bit to get into in at the beginning, but once I was into it, I was IN! I love Jennie Allen as an author, and this one did not disappoint! She address the importance of emotions, in a biblical manner, and how it affects the other areas of your life including your relationships. The representation of mental health in here was phenomenal! Fully recommend!

I appreciate how to the point and how approachable the writing of Jennie Allen's books are! After enjoying Get Out of Your Head, I also looked forward to reading this book. I was even more intrigued by Jennie explaining in the beginning that this book would serve as a companion book to GOOYH -- the balance of navigating thoughts and emotions.

I thought this book did a great job at the 101 level of breaking down emotions, the importance of them, and the basics of what to do with them. I thought the chapters were straightforward and clear, especially with the many examples given. This would have been such a helpful book for me to read in high school to help guide me through the overwhelming emotions I felt. Many people could gain basic principles from this book to integrate into their day-to-day. I'd recommend it to others to be read alongside GOOYH!

Jennie Allen has catfished me AGAIN. The title and cover should mention that this is a Christian book. I have no interest in reading religious books, and picked up Find Your People when I was struggling to make friends. Little did I know I was picking up an indoctrinating, cat-fishing book meant to trick people like me into accidentally renting a book from the library that's completely misrepresenting itself.

Anyway—I would have liked a book like this, if it was actually about emotions and not washed in religious propaganda.

This book was incredible, It was my first Jennie Allen book despite having a few of her others sitting on my shelf currently... Anyways! I actually have just recently started going to counselling again to work through some personal emotions and this book was shockingly on course with everything I was dealing with. I felt like she was speaking directly to me as I was reading through this. I would recommend this book to anyone from any background. She does discuss a lot due to her background in Christianity, which I really enjoyed but know is not everyone's cup of tea.

This book has really opened my eyes and has given me a different perspective regarding our emotions.
I was always taught that certain feelings like anger, fear, or sadness are bad and have always viewed or referred to these as negative emotions. But after picking up this book and reading, I realized that this is not true.
Jennie helps to uncover these common myths that many of us are taught and I like how she outlines and walks readers through each of the steps of noticing, naming, feeling, sharing, and then choosing how to respond to our feelings in a way that honors God.
I am so grateful for this book because it has shown me some areas that I get to work on if I want to become emotionally healthy.
Jennie is a gifted author, speaker, and teacher and her books have been a blessing to me.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone!

Jennie Allen truly has a knack for writing the books that I need when I need them. A long season of dealing with emotion, mental health, and being lost on how to actually deal with it all preceded my reading of this book. I was feeling lost. Then I got an email about Jennie's new book and the launch team. I applied and was so happy to receive an ARC from Netgalley! Every part of this book has been incredible. It's truly written from Jennie's heart to ours. I will re-read "Untangle Your Emotions" repeatedly in the future. There is always something new to gain from re-reading it!

FEEL FREE TO FEEL
Would you rather fix than feel? Is your life too hectic to spend time feeling? Do you eat your emotions with a bowl of ice cream? Or do your emotions run away with you and drag you off into a ditch? Whatever relationship you have with your emotions, you need this book!
In Untangle Your Emotions, Jennie Allen makes a complex topic accessible, understandable and full of hope. She shares that this book came out of the work she did in Get Out of Your Head. In that earlier manuscript, Allen provided practical tools to short-circuit negative thought loops. We don’t have to be victims of run-away, toxic thoughts. We can CHOOSE what occupies our minds. But even as Allen was writing that book, she realized there is another tool in our God-given toolbelt – emotions.
In Untangle Your Emotions, Allen helps us see that ALL of our emotions are created by God to inform us and connect us to Him and one another. Unfortunately, most of us possess a limited emotional vocabulary.
“How are you?”
“Fine.”
When members of my small group say they are fine, I frequently ask it if is a real ‘fine’ or a Sunday morning ‘fine.’ Nothing to see here, folks. I am fine.
Our emotions can be a foreign language. We don’t grasp what they’re telling us because we scarcely know the words. So, the first steps are notice and name our feelings. But then she encourages us to FEEL those emotions.
I confess I am a fix-it kind of person. I don’t want people to be sad or discouraged or suffering, so I work to fix the problem. This is my default setting. I don’t like sitting with uncomfortable emotions, either so again I rush to resolve. I am so busy researching I don’t spend any time feeling. I am learning to feel the feelings and then choose. Ah! Choose returns. We can choose to do this all with God. We can choose the unvarnished truth about what we feel.
Allen gives us simple but thoughtful steps to sort through the tangle of emotions. This can include making sure we are physically well. That we are drinking enough water, that our thyroid isn’t out of whack, that we are getting exercise and sleep. This is a terrific list, but I also appreciated Allen’s openness about her family’s own experiences with emotional health struggles. Sometimes we need counseling or even medication to find our way through the thick ropes of emotions that can truly bind us.
Much of our society is stuck in a mire of anxiety, depression, hopelessness. According to a recent CDC report, 3 in 5 teen-age girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021. Teenage boys scored an even higher percentage. And it isn’t just teen-agers feeling this way. I facilitate a support group for women who are struggling with many of those same emotions.
So why do YOU need this book? Do you have emotions?
The good news is that God intended us to feel all the feels. Just as He created the array of colors we enjoy, He created a whole range of emotions to enrich our lives with texture and meaning.
So feel free to feel. But maybe read Jennie Allen’s new book at the same time.

Untangle Your Emotions is a very interesting and informative book about...emotions. I was engaged with this book from page one, learning that you need to dig deep to figure out the real reason for your feelings, especially when your know in your head the feelings you are feeling are not rational. But I especially enjoyed the section on how to deal with emotions, good practical advice is always helpful when you are trying to control those irrational feelings.

Jennie gave some really great learning lessons as well. The examples she used were so relatable and fun to read.

Overall a fantastic book on emotion and how to handle them.

I have always been one to suppress my feelings for many reasons. Not wanting to cause a scene, not wanting attention, not wanting to be seen as a failure, etc. This book has helped me accept the emotions that I used to think I was plagued with but now see as such a gift of connection.

I’ve been reading Jenny’s books for the past two years and have read 4 of them. They are so authentic, challenging, and PRACTICAL for everyday life.

This book was the personal development book I didn’t know I needed. Thank you, NetGalley for allowing me the opportunity to read this early release book.

I don’t have the words to say how great this book on emotions was but, I HIGHLY recommend to everyone. I’ve been really trying to work on my mental health and emotions lately which is why I turned to this book.

I felt like the author wrote this book specifically for me. It was so real, raw, and relatable.

I’ve been a long time Jennie Allen fan - she always speaks on topics that are exactly what I need! I loved Find Your People, and I was really excited to read this one too. Jennie’s writing is a conversational style, and she details how to feel your emotions instead of avoiding them. This would be a good book for someone who is just starting to dive into this, but for myself it felt a little too beginner compared to her other books. I would still recommend this one but in the future would like to see books from her that are a little deeper!

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

I have loved Jennie Allen’s books in the past. I’ve learned a lot about my relationship with God through her books. This book though felt surface level, fake and overall a repeat of other books. I know she is trying to reach the Gen Z population but it’s possible to reach multiple generations in the same book, but Jennie didn’t do that here

I have mixed feelings about this book. Overall I enjoyed the book. There were things that I found extremely helpful and then there were things that I felt were more a matter of opinion and I didn't feel like I could agree but rather I just agreed to disagree. I feel that's probably pretty standard for religious self-help books. I think it's a matter of personal opinion I suppose. I do feel that this book can be helpful to anyone open to the topic and willing to brave the journey of looking closer to their own personal feelings and emotions. I enjoyed the authors writing style. I felt the book moved at a good pace and was relatable. I think the book gives some decent general advice. I'd be open to reading some of her other books in the future. Thank you netgalley for sharing this book with me in exchange for my personal opinion.

Thank you to @PRHaudio for an advanced listening copy and #NetGalley for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What to expect in this book:

-Practical, digestible advice
-Real life stories and experiences
-Scripture and biblical evidence
-Easy to read/not clinical
-Emotional tools and skills

Thoughts

I love everything that Jennie Allen writes and this is no exception. I have read all but one of her previous books and I love the heart that she puts into her writing. It is evident that much of her own life and personal story is involved in this book and that she had to wade through a slew of emotions herself to be able to articulate emotional health and understanding in this book. In her previous book, Get Out of Your Head, she talks about the impact of our thoughts on our mental and emotional health, what God and the Bible have to say about this, and how to manage and greater control our thoughts. In Untangle Your Emotions, she similarly looks at how our emotional health is not just a part of our overall health, but how greater understanding and compassion towards our emotions is not something to shy aware from, but something we are called to do.

As a mental health therapist, I love talking about and learning about emotions. They can be a difficult subject for people, but they are some of our greatest indicators of personal, professional, relational, and spiritual health. Jennie does an amazing job of demonstrating the purpose and gift that emotions bring to us as human beings. She also reminds us that emotions connect us to God. There are practical exercises and statements throughout the book that are helpful for any reader to greater connect to their emotions and learn more about themselves.

This will definitely be a book that I will recommend to my Christian clients and all those looking to learn more about how to sit with their emotions and have greater compassion on themselves and others. This book published on 2/13.