Feelings: How to Navigate Them, Manage Them, and Use Them for Good

IN THIS PODCAST EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

How you can understand your emotions, embrace your emotions, filter your emotions, control some of your emotions, and grow from all of them
How to identify the unique strengths and gifts you (and others) have to offer as a big feeler, steady feeler, or reluctant feeler
The role emotions play in your faith and your walk with God
What foundational, biblical truths you need to embrace in order to construct an emotional life that is healthy, happy, and holy
How to express your feelings at home in a healthy way
Practical ways to develop emotional boundaries

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

Friends, I’m so excited to be back for Season 10, and we’re kicking this season off with such a good episode. Today we’re talking about what to do with all of our feelings.

I love this episode because if you’re anything like me, you experience a lot of emotions in any given moment, and you’re not always sure what to do with them.

Well, our guest for today is here to help us out. Our guest today is Elizabeth Laing Thompson. Elizabeth is the author of a new book called, All the Feels: Discover Why Emotions Are (Mostly) Awesome and How to Untangle Them When They’re Not. She’s going to walk us through how we can understand our emotions, embrace our emotions, filter our emotions, control some of our emotions, and grow from all of them — the good, the bad, and all the ones in between.

One of my favorite things about this episode is that Elizabeth helps us figure out what kind of feeler we are — big feelers, steady feelers, or reluctant feelers — and even just identifying that in myself has been so helpful! I know it will be for you too!

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In this episode we're talking about how to navigate and manage our feelings and how we can use them for good. We also talk about the role feelings play in our faith!

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

Steph’s book, The Lipstick Gospel (here’s a paperback copy and here’s a free digital download!)

Steph’s prayer journal, The Between Places

Elizabeth’s book, All the Feels: Discover Why Emotions Are (Mostly) Awesome and How to Untangle Them When They’re Not

What kind of feeler are you quiz

Book Elizabeth mentioned, Feeling Good by Dr. David Burns

Quotes Mentioned:

"It's not a weakness to be a big feeler" - Elizabeth

"He gave us grief because otherwise we can't heal when hard things happen" - Elizabeth

"God is around whether or not we feel like he's close or not" - Stephanie

"Scripture is a great place where our faith and feelings can intersect" - Elizabeth

"We are absolutely welcome to take our honest emotions to God" - Elizabeth

"The longer we keep things hidden, the worse they get" - Stephanie

"Your feelings stem from what you've been thinking about" - Elizabeth

"You have to learn to share emotional space at home" - Elizabeth

“You have a choice if this is going to be a whole bad moment or a whole bad day” - Stephanie

"God wants you to thrive emotionally" - Elizabeth

Scripture Mentioned:

Psalm 139

Philippians 4

Galatians 5:22

CONNECT WITH ELIZABETH

Facebook // Website // Instagram

CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE

Facebook // Bookstore // Instagram

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