Jennie nailed it again!! In “Untangle Your Emotions” Jennie writes from her heart and lays it out how to truly feel our feelings as God created us to. Will definitely be reading it again!!!

2.5⭐️

I did not enjoy this book much.

It was way to religious for me, and centered around god and what he was calling for.

I love Jennie Allen but this book fell a little short for me. It seemed to have a lot of themes overlapping from her previous books and didn't hold my interest as much. It could be that I wasn't ready for this type of book when I read it but was hoping it'd have more personal stories & insight. I might come back to it later and reread but didn't love even though I was expecting too! Thank you, NetGalley, for the book.

Awesome book. You can't heal what you don't feel. It's not about allowing emotions to dictate your life, but using them to heal and grow and be who God meant you to be. To use the tools in dealing with the emotions that surface to regain hope, grow in grace toward ourselves and others, "get God," stop flunking the Serenity Prayer and to stop letting the emotions undealt with sabotage your present and your future.

A excellent look at the heart-body connection through a Christian lens. As a mental health counselor myself, these are concepts and principles I teach my clients daily; Jennie is spot-on with her assessment of the function, mechanisms, and operative principles of our emotions. What gives her a unique place in this field with this book, however, is the interpretation of God's role in our emotions. This is valuable insight for the Christian who is simply struggling their way through trauma, stress, or just regular life.

I'm fascinated by the psychology of emotions. It was my absolute favorite topic during my psychology studies and I love to read everything out there. And especially self-help books, since they tend to give a lot of examples from daily life. Therefore, I was very excited to see the book started with plenty of recognizable situations. However, there influence of God on our lives and emotions is also mentioned a lot in this part. As someone who does not believe, I do not mind if the author makes a few references related to religion, but for me personally, this book did it a bit too much for me. I therefore unfortunately made the decision to stop reading. Maybe I'll pick it up again in the future, since I can feel the book is full of great advice.

However, I do think the book is very valuable for people who do believe in God and want to understand their emotions better!

I really enjoyed reading this for the most part. It was nice to “hear” that any emotion we have is valid but let’s figure out where that emotion comes from.
Wish there was a little more scripture to help tie back each emotion and where people overcame it in the Bible but still liked this book.

I have read nearly all of Jennie Allen’s books and this one wasn’t my favorite. I appreciate the focus on mental health and the importance of acknowledging up your emotions. I wish there was more Scripture in this, as well as more from a research/therapy perspective. It felt repetitive. I also thought the small sections on exercising, drinking more water, and eating healthier felt rushed and unnecessary. This took me the longest time to read which is not typical when I have read her previous books. I’m disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this book as I was really excited about it.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I always really enjoy Jennie’s books! This was no exception. I really liked how she talked about emotions and how it’s okay, even healthy, to feel them instead of stuffing them. I think it will help a lot of people. It helped me!

I wish I had read this book sooner, and I wish I could read it again for the first time. This is a book that will be on repeat. It's painfully obvious that I struggle with regulating my emotions, I let my thoughts made me anxious and I go from 0 to 100 REAL QUICK; just ask my poor husband or children.

I'm coincidentally doing a 7 week study with my church on Find Your People, also by Jennie, while I read this, and I feel like I have a lot of work to do on myself now. 🥴

I am 100% a COPER. I can list many of my coping mechanisms off the top of my head. Before this book, I don't think I realized how much of my life was literally just spent COPING. I'm still in a whirlwind of EMOTIONS after flying through this book, and to be honest I don't know how to rate it. I feel like I want to give it 5 stars and 0 stars at the same time. Which I believe means it's definitely 5 stars, because it wrecked me in the way I feel it was intended to, I can't wait for the study book to come out, so I can go through that.

Thank you NetGalley and WaterBrook & Multnomah for the eARC of this book, in exchange for my honest review

I’ve been in therapy for a couple years now wrestling around the very topics covered in this book. This book is as close to therapy than anything else I’ve encountered! Highly, highly recommend. I hate to say life-changing, but it really is life-changing impactful!

I read this entire book in about 4-5 hrs! It was EXCELLENT! I recently suffered the loss of a parent and had a lot of emotional distress to untangle and this book was such a REFRESHING practical guide on untangling your emotions, and finding the deeper roots for reactions we have. What I loved most was how bold this book was to go against some very archaic church culture, and proudly proclaim that “Feelings are meant to be felt & not ignored and pushed down!”

I found myself laughing, crying and just eating this book up like it was a lifeline! Great work Jennie Allen, you are the reason I never have to pay for therapy :)

I absolutely love Jennie Allen! I appreciate her clarity in wanting to review what she's previously written and encouragement moving forward. Her voice has proven trustworthy and biblically based. All of her work is easy to read and comprehend and has easily become must reads for me.

I have really enjoyed Jennie Allen’s previous books and sermons at events such as IF:Gathering; and I deeply respect the work she is doing for the kingdom of God. I’m incredibly disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this latest read. I wanted to leave having gained greater understanding of how to untangle emotions, but felt it just barely hit the surface of emotions and advice we’re always given (I.e. “it’s okay to feel emotions”). Some of the illustrations were used in prior books and felt cringy, even though I’m sure she got permission from family/friends to use them. I wanted depth like her previous reads and didn’t feel that connection. Thank you Netgalley for the Advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Absolutely amazing book! Jennie Allen writes in a way that is so relatable and helps sort through the complexity of emotions! It is raw, unfiltered, and solid gold! She shares her heart, struggles and how she found freedom and healing. Emotions are a signal, not to be judged but felt. So appreciate Jennie sharing her gift with putting to words a lot of my own fears, doubts with facing emotions and not shying away from sharing with others. Healing happens in community. This was a brave declaration full of truth and God’s grace. Get your copy today!

I am so glad I requested this book.
This book was able to be a good guide on simple things to do that will assist the reader on
things to change. The most important lesson that I learned is we all "have a choice":
a choice of what we think about and what we do. This book will help many readers who struggle with emotions.
We all have a few things to learn and maybe unlearn so we can have great relationships.
Highly recommend this book.

Thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah and Netgalley for the ARC of this book.

4 stars!

This is my second Jennie Allen book, and I love the way that she writes. Her books are always very soundly based in the biblical truth while being super duper practical about how you can actually apply things to your life. There is always a good balance between the personal stories and background behind the topics she writes about and the actual practical applications. Although, I think this one may have had just a little bit too much lead up in the beginning, it very quickly redeems itself, because I think the content of this book was so great.

I definitely fall hard into the category of people who are not so good at naming their emotions and expressing how they feel, and tend to bottle things up. I have read a few different fiction psychology books that walk you through the reasons behind that and how to overcome it, but I feel like this book gave me some really practical tools and brought that process back to God in a way that is very beautiful. I love how she addresses how God gave us these emotions so we don't need to beat ourselves up about them, but how when we bring them to God and process them with Him he can turn them into something beautiful.

This was a joy to read and I am very thankful that WaterBrook & Multnomah provided me a copy in exchange for my honest review. Can't wait to read more of Jennie's books in the future.

This is the 1st Jennie Allen book I’ve read and I loved it. Especially now living in a world where mental health awareness is becoming more prominent - this book is a great resource and starting point on how crucial it is for us to examine, understand, and learn the necessary ways to truly feel our feelings and be able to unpack them in a healthy way.

Although you don’t need to be a Christ Follower to gain insight into this book, it does heavily talk about God and our need to consistently and constantly go back to Him.

Personally, as a Believer, this book was an incredible reminder of how God created us to feel all our emotions and for good reason — We keep needing God. As Jennie said, “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.”

We’re humans. We feel. Everything. The good and the bad. This book reminds me that it’s healthy to get raw and vulnerable and to share it with those I trust and that it’s okay to get all the necessary help and support I need.

Highly recommend!!

Another great book from the author who brought us Get out of your head and Find your people.

Jennie is an expert on feeling your emotions and uses the Bible to help us explore how to do that. There are many steps when it comes to our emotions, you have to identify them, name them, and allow yourself to feel them..

She really nailed it when she said the most common emotion we seem to allow ourselves to feel is guilt. Jesus has set us free from this guilt.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this book. All opinions are my own.

Jennie Allen is one of my favorites! She brings such a refreshing and relatable outlook on life. I enjoyed this book and will definitely be purchasing it when it’s released.