DEALING WITH FEELING

From Marc Brackett, psychologist and author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel, comes a practical guide for embracing and regulating our emotions in order to transform our lives.

Virtually everything that has happened in your lifegood, bad, happy, sadwas 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 rather a skill that can be learned and mastered. Marc Brackett examines his own journey with emotions and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies and techniques to help readers regain control of their lives. At the heart of his message is acceptance; there is no such thing as a bad emotiononly 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 will respond to what life throws at us. By honing our emotion regulation skills, we can increase our chances of achieving success in all facets of our lives. Dealing With Feeling will help you become the best version of yourself. Marc Brackett, Ph.D., author of Permission to Feel, is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale University. Marc has published 125 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based, systemic approach to social and emotional learning that has been adopted by over 2,000 pre-K to high schools across the United States and in oth- er countries. 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.