Great tool to learn about how your emotions affect your thinking
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We are using this book in a class we are taking and it has caused me to rethink the way I handle all of my social transactions.
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Very insightful and helpful information for dealing with the root of anger. The book is an easy read, it will cause you to stop and consider where the anger is coming from and how you can think differently about your feelings.
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Very helpful in looking at parts of me that I never thought of as strengths.  This is not an abilities finder but helps you to discover and think about your core personality.  I wondered why I seemed to always be thinking about all kinds of things and sometimes wondered what good it was.  One of my strengths is Intellection which means I like to think about things.  It may seem silly but that helped me realize that it is not a quirk but a strength that I use everyday and can consciously use it to prepare for speaking meetings, and more.  It comes with a test key (unless you buy used - then it costs $10) that allows you to take an online survey which gives you a print out of your top five strengths.  Would be nice if they let you know how strong they were in comparison to each other, but that may be given if you pay the big bucks for the complete report.
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This book helps to break down the big emotions into little parts. Also, it helps answer the question, Now what do I do?
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The workbook is a great idea! Everything is so much more real when you have to write it down, there's no denying it happened. I have also gone back to re- read my notes several times when I start to think of my ex agaIn. It took me a while to figure out I was with a narcissist, I knew something was off but didn't want to admit it. I finally broke free and started no contact but was horrified that I would relapse. This book helps you to remember what really happened, especially when you can only remember the good stuff.  This book was not only therapeutic but also helps you to not feel alone, especially when your friends just don't understand what's you are going through. I could relate to so much in this book and it was great to have my feelings validated by someone else in the same situation.
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Thought-provoking, it makes you stop and analyze motivators, drive, why one does certain things, and highlights some of the obstacles that the societal mentality of today poses. A relevant read, it provides the tools to question one's attitude and actions, and highlights the areas that can be addressed immediately.

Highly recommended!
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Opens the mind for a great deal of insight.  I recommend it to anyone who is confused about one or more relationships, even if emotional blackmail is not involved.  It's one of those books that can be helpful in simply making observations, discernments, and choices that help us get through life as well as possible.
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I was curious about this book and what it said about changing your thinking. I have been recently been assessing my life and i have realzied how what I think, my attitude, and my mind set really dictate how I feel and how my day goes. I got this book hoping there would be some insight into HOW I change my thinking. The book starts off by talking explaining how negative thinking literally pollutes your mind and prevents you from moving forward in life. It explains how once we liberate our minds from all the negative thinking, we can achive so much. Just thinking negatively can shut you off to oppurtunities and living freely. It talks about how we can control our destiny and we have control even if the situation can't be changed.

The book then explains the difference between conscious and subconcsious mind, how to become more aware of your subconscious mind and gives you some things to do (small exercises) to realize the power of your subconscious. The rest of the book guides you through how to indentify negative thought processes , practice positive self talk, and the like. It also explains NLP techniques (and what NLP is) later in the book.

The book was a nice little read. IT was short and only took about a half hour. It tells me to do a lot of things that I am already trying, but also gave me some new insights. The power our thinking has over our lives and our actions is pretty incredible, and anything that trys to explain how to change that for the positive is worth a read in my opinion. The book wasn't dripping with excitement and was a little bit boring, but it was short and to the point which was nice. There were links in the kindle book that I could not open. THe browser said that the feature was unsupported (iphone 5) Most self help books I read the first few pages of and then never pick it up again. This one I was able to read all in one sitting. I recieved this product for free in exchange for an unbiased review.
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I gave the book four stars because it is not a all encompassing book about emotions, but it is a great book by a woman who suffers from the effects of raw emotions and how to deal with them as a Christian.

I actually attended a church study on this book and that is where I was first introduced to it.  I then bought the book on Kindle for my iPhone and iPad.

I am a Chrisitan and a therapy intern and I will be able to use the skills I learn in all situations and teach them to my faith-based clientele.
The book has helped me add more tools to my coping skills bag of tricks.  Lysa makes this book into a great personal Bible study and helps me see God's will for my emotions.
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I liked this book because it makes you evaluate and really think about how you feel about (your mental and emotional relationship) with your stuff. Helped me reduce the amount of stuff I have, because I now think about my possessions differently.
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I love how I pick an emotion and go to the page in the book and think, "Oh yeah! I didn't think of that!"  This is an excellent tool for writers.
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The concepts within are delivered in bite size increments.  My children have enjoyed working through the books both in a group setting and on their own.  Concepts that can be difficult for parents to explain or convey are made easier.  It does use scenarios my teens don't completely understand like cutting, not eating, and other self harming ideas and I had to explain some of this to them.  However even this offered an opportunity to explain things they may come in contact with in the future with other teens and adults.  Overall it is an excellent tool to teach teens to cope with their emotions and the emotions of others as well, how to step back and assess a situation, and gives them tools to enable them to make more informed and thought through decisions.
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I have always been fascinated by human emotions and how we display them! Sometimes it can feel like our emotions are in control of us and not us in control of our emotions. That is never a good feeling and will generally produce a negative outcome, both in our lives and others. This book walks you through better understanding our emotions and why it is so important for us to really feel those emotions, whether it be through allowing tears in times of sadness, screaming (alone of course) when angry, journaling feelings, etc..., as not feeling them can cause illness, poor health, anger, depression, chemical abuse and so on. I felt this book was very interesting to read and easy to understand as well. In my opinion, it is well written and quite informative! Although, I did receive this product for free, to read, in exchange for my unbiased review of it, this in no way affected my opinion of it. Overall, this is a good book and worth the read! I'd recommend it, it'll help you in your everyday life. Most successful leaders or people have mastered their own emotional intelligence! It can also help you effectively teach your children how to deal with their emotions in a healthy way! This is an important topic that I feel everyone should be aware of.
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Author, Jeff Schreve invites us to consider that we should not deny, hide, or ignore negative emotions such as worry or anger, but use them to find out how God is speaking to us.  In writing about negative emotions, Schreve uses the analogy of the smoke detector: its alarm goes off long before we experience the full force of the blaze to let us know that there's a fire somewhere that needs to be examined.

This book addresses 8 alarm emotions: embarrassment, loneliness, frustration, worry, anger, guilt, discontentment, and depression. Schreve outlines the message contained in each emotion, then discusses how God uses these feelings to let us know what God given desires in our life are out of balance.  The bulk of each chapter equips readers with Scripture and actions useful for bringing our lives back into balance.

So much of the information here is not new; even Schreve lets readers know that the fundamentals in this book came from seminary lectures by Dr. Wayne McDill. However, Schreve's writing and organization of the topics make this book a valuable, practical tool that I've found myself referring to over and over again.  Schreve's style is such that he says what he needs to say, then moves on, making this a content rich book that you'll want to read and reread with highlighter in hand. I found that, once I read the introduction, I could skip around to the chapters that I needed most then come back to the rest.  Runaway Emotions was not only useful for self-understanding, but also for understanding others who exhibit these alarming feelings.

Very highly recommended.

I received a copy of this book from Thomas Nelson's Booksneeze program in return for an honest review.
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This is something I never looked at before - being able to predict what someone will do based on
their emotional tone. It's gives you a way to anticipate the actions and reactions of other people and
not be let down or sucker punched by others as I have been from time to time.
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This is a wonderful diagnostic tool.  I have increased my ability to sleep and am so much calmer.  Plus, it explains a lot about myself and other members of my family.  Please read this.  It could certainly help a lot of people handle their emotions.
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As humans we experience a wide range of emotions on a daily basis. Granted some of them aren't as nice and pretty as others, it's all part of being human. Perfectly imperfect, if you will.

The Anger Workbook is an in-depth look exploring all the facets of anger; Carter and Minirth use several vignettes to illustrate how anger may present itself or manifest, then follow with a series of questions in an attempt to get the reader to explore their own experiences with these particular forms of anger as well as the consequences of certain types of anger. I found the book very informative and, in a day and age when emotions are simplified to just a handful, I found it refreshing and surprising to learn that often times things that are identified as anger are not quite anger, yet there are plenty of emotions that are NOT identified as anger that should be.

The vignettes really helped solidify my understanding of the different types of anger and the consequences of each type, so I really appreciated the clear explanation and exploratory questions that were posed during each section. I also appreciated the detail that went in to this book, as it is also laced with scripture.

All in all I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. It is very seldom that I come across a "self-help" book that is worthy of five stars, but this one really taught me some new things about anger that I am very excited to apply to my life. This book is appropriate for everyone; I truly believe that everyone could learn something about anger from this book.

The "fine print": This book was provided for review purposes from booksneeze.com. All opinions expressed are my own and my honest opinion of the work.