Writing for Emotional Balance: A Guided Journal to Help You Manage Overwhelming Emotions

by Beth Jacobs

Book Overview

When you've decided you can't take it any more, it helps a great deal to know what it actually is. The process of writing about overwhelming emotions is a remarkably effective means of creating clarity and perspective in your life. Regular journal writers and diarists rely on their writing to help them keep their emotions in perspective; this book distills the best emotional benefits of regular personal writing into a series of engaging and easy-to-practice writing exercises. Journaling can help balance and regulate your emotions. This book, a guided journal, combines the benefits of journaling practice with sound and practical advice. It gives you information, ideas, and active exercises that can help you feel more comfortable and directed in your emotional life. While exploring these writing exercises, you'll discover how to understand the processes of your own emotional system and how to think clearly about your feelings as they happen. As a result, you'll experience a greater sense of flexibility within yourself and an ongoing confidence in how you live with your emotions. Learn and Practice the Seven Essential Skills of Emotion Management: *Distance yourself from your emotions *Define what your emotions mean for you *Release blocked and conflicted feelings *Regain focus while experiencing overwhelming emotions *Use structure and organization to clarify feelings *Regroup after an emotional set back *Maintain your new skills and incorporate them into your life

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572243821
• ISBN13: 9781572243828
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.1" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book for every person's mind control!

I've managed my mind through writing a diary or just scribbling at any moment. This book taught me how I can develop this writing into managing my mind effectively. Very detailed and kind guide for everyone who wants to keep under control themselves well.

Learn to Control Your Emotions More Than They Control You!

I love the personal and non-judgmental tone of this book! Dr. Jacobs clearly cares about her readers and wants all of us to learn how to manage our emotions better when they get out of hand. Happily, she offers a lot more than just talk. There are 33 exercises in the book plus space to respond to them. In some of the exercises, you get to know yourself better, and in others you practice the techniques she teaches for managing emotions. All you need is a pen or pencil and the desire to control your feelings more than they control you. The book ends up being both a valuable lesson about the way emotions work and an invaluable journal that helps you figure out how YOUR emotions work and how you can become a better manager of them. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to have more control over his or her life!