Dealing with Feeling: Harness Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want

From Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, comes a life-changing guide for regulating how we respond to our emotions in order to transform our lives. Think back to your most challenging moment - whether in your career, relationships or personal life. Did you lose control from anger? Were you paralysed by fear? Did you isolate yourself due to humiliation? Whatever your reaction, your emotions most likely determined what you said, or did, next. But the way we handle our emotions is not, as many believe, an involuntary part of ourselves - it is a skill that must be taught and refined throughout our lives. And there's no such thing as a 'bad' emotion - only the emotions we don't fully understand or haven't yet learned to channel in positive, intentional ways. In Dealing with Feeling, Marc Brackett shares his own journey of emotional growth, explores the latest science behind our emotions and offers practical techniques to help you nurture healthy relationships, tackle life's challenges and enhance your mental wellbeing. Life may be unpredictable, but how you respond doesn't have to be. With the transformative techniques in Dealing with Feeling you will learn to navigate life's ups and downs and become the best version of yourself.

About the Author :
Marc Brackett is the founding director of the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence, a professor in the Child Study Centre at Yale University and the author of Permission to Feel. Marc has published 175 scholarly articles on the role of emotions and emotional intelligence in learning, decision making, creativity, relationships, health and performance. He has received numerous awards and is on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Marc also consults regularly with corporations like Microsoft and Google on integrating emotional intelligence principles into employee training and product design.

Review :
Dealing with Feeling makes a big promise—and delivers. With warmth, wisdom, and utmost clarity, Marc Brackett explains our emotions, where they come from, and how, specifically, we can manage and learn from them. I truly loved this brilliant book and will recommend it to anyone and everyone! It’s that good In Dealing with Feeling, Marc Brackett teaches readers how to master the life-changing skill of managing their reactions to life's inevitable challenges. In this transformative book, Brackett explores the science behind our emotions and offers practical strategies for both understanding and taming them. This comprehensive roadmap for emotional well-being is a must-read guide for anyone looking to thrive in today’s emotionally charged world—which should be everyone! Life is tough, and now more than ever we need the skills to navigate our emotions with confidence. In this practical and compelling book, Brackett delivers science-backed strategies to help us manage our feelings with clarity, strength, and purpose—even in life’s most challenging moments. This is the essential guide to thriving in an unpredictable world Marc Brackett's powerful and kaleidoscopic book Dealing with Feeling declares with grace and wit and style that emotion regulation is the single most important skill we can develop in today's world. We live in shattered times and Brackett wants to help us put the mosaic back together In this wonderfully written and lively book, Marc Brackett gives us the tools to understand and manage emotions with wisdom and skill. Grounded in science and full of practical guidance, Dealing with Feeling is essential reading for anyone seeking a richer emotional life and a deeper understanding of the value of emotional intelligence An insightful read about how to handle the space between stimulus and response. Marc Brackett is a widely respected expert on emotional intelligence, and his book offers a lucid look at practical ways to improve at managing feelings Dealing with Feeling takes us on a brilliant and heartfelt journey to master one of life's most essential skills: managing our emotions. At a time when stress and worry are dominating so many people's lives, Brackett's blend of personal story and science reminds us that a better path—with more peace, joy, and fulfillment—is indeed within our grasp We’ve been taught to hustle, achieve, and move fast—but not to feel. I followed that path for years, until I realized something was missing. Dealing with Feeling helped me understand that our emotions aren’t detours—they’re directions. When we learn to listen to them and use them wisely, they can lead us to deeper relationships, more meaningful work, and a truer version of ourselves In a world transformed by AI and constant change, Dealing with Feeling should be required reading for all leaders. Brackett makes a compelling case that emotion regulation isn’t a soft skill—it’s a strategic advantage for leading teams, building ethical products, and thriving under pressure People spend a frustrated lifetime trying – and failing – to control their emotions. Marc Brackett offers us a different approach, moving from controlling emotions to managing them, from trying to eliminate emotions to accepting and leveraging them as tools. Dealing with Feeling is a must-read for all of us trying to cope with the emotional ups and downs of everyday life The ‘emotions’ guru with Kate’s seal of approval ... In his new book, Dealing with Feeling, Marc claims that if one whole generation could learn these tricks 'nearly all our troubles would disappear'