Dealing with Feeling by Marc Brackett

Dealing with Feeling by Marc Brackett

Instant USA Today Bestseller

From Marc Brackett, founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of the bestselling book Permission to Feel, comes an essential guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives.

Success in virtually every aspect of life--career, friendship, love, and family--is determined mainly by one thing: how we deal with emotions. In your most challenging moments, how did you respond? Did you fly off the handle? Were you paralyzed by indecision? Did you engage in behaviors that undermined your best intentions? Or did you exhibit grace under pressure and flourish? How you responded likely shaped what happened next. But emotion regulation isn't a fixed trait, as many believe. It is a set of skills and strategies that must be learned, practiced, and refined over a lifetime.

Marc Brackett examines his own challenges dealing with emotions, explains the latest science of emotion regulation, and provides a set of practical, evidence-based strategies to help us use our feelings wisely to nurture healthy relationships, achieve ambitious goals, and experience greater well-being. At the heart of his message is acceptance: There are no bad emotions--only emotions we don't understand or know how to direct in positive, intentional ways.

The good news? 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 show you how to work with your and others' emotions--not against them--so you can become the best version of yourself and lift others up too.

Marc Brackett, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor at Yale University's Child Study Center. He is the author of Permission to Feel. Marc has written 125 academic papers about the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision-making, creativity, relationships, health, and performance. He is the creator of RULER, an evidence-based, comprehensive approach through social and emotional learning that has been implemented by over 2,000 schools from pre-K to high school in the United States and other countries. Marc is a member of the board of directors for the Collaboration for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and has received multiple accolades. He is a co-founder of Oji Life Lab, a business-focused digital emotional intelligence learning system. Marc also works with companies like Facebook, Microsoft, and Google on incorporating emotional intelligence ideas into staff training and product design on a daily basis.