Managing Your Emotions Instead of Your Emotions Managing You

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Joyce Meyer offers spiritual advice on how to keep emotions under control in the face of every day living in her book Managing Your Emotions: Instead of Your Emotions Managing You. Its main message is that we should adopt and build skills to overcome negative thoughts and emotions. Emotions should be kept in their proper place and instead be lead by faith and God's help when making important decisions.¹ She also gives advice on how to heal broken emotions and how to forgive ourselves and others.

[edit] Fast Facts

1. Author: Joyce Meyer
2. Target audience: Christian Women
3. ISBN-13: 9780446532020
4. First Publication: July 1997 (hardcover)
5. Second Publication: October 2002 (hardcover)
6. Sales Rank: 12,801²
7. 16 books citing Managing Your Emotions Instead of Your Emotions Managing You³

[edit] Overview

Meyer covers various topics in this book, examples of which are "Codependency", "Healing the Child Within", "Mood Swings" and "Forgiveness". She talks about relying on God and his providence and not to totally depend on others, their behavior and events. In the Bible, Jesus encourages us to be like young children, ever ready to show and give their love to others. Meyer talks about all the good characteristics children have and how we should adopt these in our adult life.⁴

"Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life."⁵