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Open to Emotion

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Emotions are messages, meant to help human beings learn about ourselves, learn about the world, and connect to others. But are emotions more like junk mail (ugh), or more like a letter from a long-lost friend (yay)?

In this book, Dr. Jenn Veilleux uses the metaphor of emotions as messages to explain how emotions work in a practical and engaging way. She highlights that emotional messages can feel like junk mail, but that understanding emotions better can help emotions feel more helpful and less like email spam.

This book shares the science of emotions and emotion regulation in a practical and engaging way, with plenty of examples and suggestions for how to apply the science to everyday life.

Anyone who struggles with their feelings, watches other people struggle with their feelings, or just wants to understand emotions better can get something from this book.

What you’ll learn

  • Emotional Sensitivity

    Emotional sensitivity is the backdrop of emotional experience. Some people inherently get more mail (i.e., highly sensitive people) and some don’t (low sensitivity people).

  • Emotional Awareness

    Being aware of emotions is like knowing when the mail is being delivered. How to make sure you get your mail but don’t sleep with old postcards under your pillow.

  • Values

    Where do emotional messages come from, any way? Because you can only have a feeling about something that matters, maybe values (i.e., what matters) are important to understand?

  • Emotional Labeling

    What types of emotional messages are are you getting? Labeling the feelings can help you decipher what the messages are actually trying to tell you.

  • Coping Ahead

    (This one doesn’t map on well to the emotional messages metaphor.) How can you live your life in a way that prevents later emotional damage, like wearing protective gear to cook or play sports?

  • Open the Envelope

    If emotions are messages, how can you read them in a way that helps you? Is the emotion something you want to feel or something that might be useful to you in a different way?

  • Actively Regulating Emotions

    There are so many options when you need to actively regulate! Learn how to change the situation, shift attention, change your thoughts, or dampen the response itself.

  • Expressing and Sharing Emotions

    Emotional messages are intended to be broadcast, but sharing emotions with others can be a minefield. Broadcasting emotions to yourself or sharing them with others can be valuable!

  • Emotional Flexibility

    Emotions are usually helpful but sometimes we need to throw away those messages, and sometimes we need to hang on them. Ultimately we need to be flexible in responding to feelings!