Becoming Emotionally Whole: Change Your Thoughts to Be Happier and Healthier (Charles F. Stanley Bible Study Series)
God’s wisdom about expressing emotions.
Emotions are a gift from God, who created each of us with a capacity to feel and to express our feelings to others. For this reason, we need to know how to express our emotions in healthy ways, learn how to cope with negative emotions, direct our emotions toward good outcomes, and give voice to our feelings in order to improve communication. In Becoming Emotionally Whole, Dr. Charles Stanley reveals how regardless of where we are on the spectrum of emotional growth–from denial to full expression–we can take the necessary steps that God wants us to take to have truth and lasting emotional health.
The Charles F. Stanley Bible Study Series is a unique approach to Bible study, incorporating biblical truth, personal insights, emotional responses, and a call to action. Each study draws on Dr. Stanley’s many years of teaching the guiding principles found in God’s Word, showing how we can apply them in practical ways to every situation we face. This edition of the series has been completely revised and updated, and includes two brand-new lessons from Dr. Stanley.
Each lesson includes:
- Overview: A brief look at what is covered in the lesson
- Life’s Questions: A teaching from Dr. Stanley that unpacks the topic of the lesson
- Living the Principle: Application and Bible study questions based on the key points
- Reflection: Key takeaways to put into practice today and tomorrow
Reviews (35)
Great healing tool!
Great book!! We are using with an online Bible study. Great insights broken down for today’s challenges. Highly recommend for anyone who struggles with self esteem and/or who had critical role models.
If you dont about your feelings...check out this book!!!
This is a Very Helpful book!!! It covers So Much... as also not hard to understand!!! Im going to read it again!!!
There are no bad emotions, it’s just our attitude and behavior toward them.
I used the book in a Church Bible Study and it was enlightening. The study helped me understand many of the emotions I experience.
Comforting
Love his books
Excellent
Makes you think and enjoy book
Owners Manual for Emotions
Do you ever beat yourself up because certain emotions manifest in you brain? Do you ever feel like your emotions control you, instead of the other way around? As Dr. Stanley describes, emotions are just your mind operating normally. They have a purpose; your emotions are to get your attention and motivate you to action. The key is to use your ability to create emotions in positive ways, instead of negative ways. This takes time, since changing emotions involves retraining multiple parts of your brain. But, with God's help, it is possible. The model of emotions used this book is consistent with current scientific research. See for example, "How Emotions are Made, The Secret Life of the Brain," by Dr. Lisa Barrett. The general ability to have emotions is an innate ability of our brains; however, specific emotions are learned: constructed over time, involving many parts of the brain. As Dr. Stanley writes, and I believe Dr. Barrett would agree, we are not born with envy, we learn it. Emotions have the ability to get the attention of our conscious minds quickly, that is what they are for. There are time when that is important, such as feeling fear when a truck is heading right toward us, appropriate action is obviously urgent. We have problems when our emotions are not used correctly. "How Emotions are Made," gives a fantastic scientific description of how emotions happen. But, it does not tell us what to do about it. "Becoming Emotionally Whole" teaches us what to do about it.
Lessons in Becoming Emotionally Whole
In this book, I realized some things about my emotions that I really needed to consider. I also learned about new things that I disregarded and yet realized, however that if I truly want become emotionally whole, I need to deal with those demons and remember that God loves me and I need put it on him and trust him with my whole heart.
Great healing tool!
Great book!! We are using with an online Bible study. Great insights broken down for today’s challenges. Highly recommend for anyone who struggles with self esteem and/or who had critical role models.
If you dont about your feelings...check out this book!!!
This is a Very Helpful book!!! It covers So Much... as also not hard to understand!!! Im going to read it again!!!
There are no bad emotions, it’s just our attitude and behavior toward them.
I used the book in a Church Bible Study and it was enlightening. The study helped me understand many of the emotions I experience.
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