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DEALING WITH FEELING

Marc Brackett

Harness Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want

A practical guide for embracing and regulating our emotions in order to transform our lives.
Virtually everything that has happened in your life -good, bad, happy, sad- was influenced by how you dealt with your emotions. In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? What stories did you tell about yourself, and how did your reactions affect others?

The way we handle our emotions is not a fixed part of ourselves, but a skill that can be learned and mastered.

This book provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies and techniques to help readers regain control of their lives. At the heart of its message is acceptance: there is no such thing as a bad emotion, only ones you don't understand and don't yet know how to re-direct in positive, intentional ways.

We all have the power to decide how we respond to what life throws at us. By regulating our emotions we can increase our chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. This book helps its readers to become the best version of themselves.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the author of Permission to Feel, which has received praise from Carol Dweck, Kate Middleton and the Princess of Wales. He is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. He has published 125 scholarly articles and is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based approach to social and emotional learning. He is co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a digital emotional intelligence learning system for businesses. Marc consults regularly with corporations like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google on integrating emotional intelligence into employee training and product design.
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Published 2025-09-01 by Celadon/Macmillan

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In a world transformed by AI and constant change, Dealing with Feeling should be required reading for all leaders. Brackett makes a compelling case that emotion regulation isn't a soft skillit's a strategic advantage for leading teams, building ethical products, and thriving under pressure.

An insightful read about how to handle the space between stimulus and response. Marc Brackett is a widely respected expert on emotional intelligence, and his book offers a lucid look at practical ways to improve at managing feelings.

In this wonderfully written and lively book, Marc Brackett gives us the tools to understand and manage emotions with skill and wisdom. Dealing with Feeling is essential reading for anyone seeking a richer emotional life and a deeper understanding of the value of emotional intelligence.

In this transformative book, Brackett offers a comprehensive roadmap to emotional well-being. A must-read for anyone hoping to thrive in today's emotionally charged worldwhich should be everyone!

Dealing with Feeling makes a big promiseand delivers. With warmth, wisdom, and utmost clarity, Marc Brackett explains where our emotions come from, and how, specifically, we can manage and learn from them. I truly loved this brilliant book and will recommend it to anyone and everyone! It's that good.

Marc Brackett's powerful and kaleidoscopic book Dealing with Feeling declares with grace and wit and style that emotion regulation is the single most important skill we can develop in today's world. We live in shattered times and Brackett wants to help us put the mosaic back together.

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We've been taught to hustle, achieve, and move fastbut not to feel. I followed that path for years, until I realized something was missing. Dealing with Feeling helped me understand that our emotions aren't detoursthey're directions. When we learn to listen to them and use them wisely, they can lead us to deeper relationships, more meaningful work, and a truer version of ourselves.

Life is tough, and now more than ever we need the skills to navigate our emotions with confidence. In this practical and compelling book, Brackett delivers science-backed strategies to help us manage our feelings with clarity, strength, and purposeeven in life's most challenging moments. This is the essential guide to thriving in an unpredictable world.

Dealing with Feeling takes us on a brilliant and heartfelt journey to master one of life's most essential skills: managing our emotions. At a time when stress and worry are dominating so many people's lives, Brackett's blend of personal story and science reminds us that a better pathwith more peace, joy, and fulfillmentis indeed within our grasp.