I really enjoyed reading this for the most part. It was nice to “hear” that any emotion we have is valid but let’s figure out where that emotion comes from.
Wish there was a little more scripture to help tie back each emotion and where people overcame it in the Bible but still liked this book.

I have read nearly all of Jennie Allen’s books and this one wasn’t my favorite. I appreciate the focus on mental health and the importance of acknowledging up your emotions. I wish there was more Scripture in this, as well as more from a research/therapy perspective. It felt repetitive. I also thought the small sections on exercising, drinking more water, and eating healthier felt rushed and unnecessary. This took me the longest time to read which is not typical when I have read her previous books. I’m disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this book as I was really excited about it.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I always really enjoy Jennie’s books! This was no exception. I really liked how she talked about emotions and how it’s okay, even healthy, to feel them instead of stuffing them. I think it will help a lot of people. It helped me!

I wish I had read this book sooner, and I wish I could read it again for the first time. This is a book that will be on repeat. It's painfully obvious that I struggle with regulating my emotions, I let my thoughts made me anxious and I go from 0 to 100 REAL QUICK; just ask my poor husband or children.

I'm coincidentally doing a 7 week study with my church on Find Your People, also by Jennie, while I read this, and I feel like I have a lot of work to do on myself now. 🥴

I am 100% a COPER. I can list many of my coping mechanisms off the top of my head. Before this book, I don't think I realized how much of my life was literally just spent COPING. I'm still in a whirlwind of EMOTIONS after flying through this book, and to be honest I don't know how to rate it. I feel like I want to give it 5 stars and 0 stars at the same time. Which I believe means it's definitely 5 stars, because it wrecked me in the way I feel it was intended to, I can't wait for the study book to come out, so I can go through that.

Thank you NetGalley and WaterBrook & Multnomah for the eARC of this book, in exchange for my honest review

I’ve been in therapy for a couple years now wrestling around the very topics covered in this book. This book is as close to therapy than anything else I’ve encountered! Highly, highly recommend. I hate to say life-changing, but it really is life-changing impactful!

I read this entire book in about 4-5 hrs! It was EXCELLENT! I recently suffered the loss of a parent and had a lot of emotional distress to untangle and this book was such a REFRESHING practical guide on untangling your emotions, and finding the deeper roots for reactions we have. What I loved most was how bold this book was to go against some very archaic church culture, and proudly proclaim that “Feelings are meant to be felt & not ignored and pushed down!”

I found myself laughing, crying and just eating this book up like it was a lifeline! Great work Jennie Allen, you are the reason I never have to pay for therapy :)

I absolutely love Jennie Allen! I appreciate her clarity in wanting to review what she's previously written and encouragement moving forward. Her voice has proven trustworthy and biblically based. All of her work is easy to read and comprehend and has easily become must reads for me.

I have really enjoyed Jennie Allen’s previous books and sermons at events such as IF:Gathering; and I deeply respect the work she is doing for the kingdom of God. I’m incredibly disappointed that I didn’t enjoy this latest read. I wanted to leave having gained greater understanding of how to untangle emotions, but felt it just barely hit the surface of emotions and advice we’re always given (I.e. “it’s okay to feel emotions”). Some of the illustrations were used in prior books and felt cringy, even though I’m sure she got permission from family/friends to use them. I wanted depth like her previous reads and didn’t feel that connection. Thank you Netgalley for the Advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

Absolutely amazing book! Jennie Allen writes in a way that is so relatable and helps sort through the complexity of emotions! It is raw, unfiltered, and solid gold! She shares her heart, struggles and how she found freedom and healing. Emotions are a signal, not to be judged but felt. So appreciate Jennie sharing her gift with putting to words a lot of my own fears, doubts with facing emotions and not shying away from sharing with others. Healing happens in community. This was a brave declaration full of truth and God’s grace. Get your copy today!

I am so glad I requested this book.
This book was able to be a good guide on simple things to do that will assist the reader on
things to change. The most important lesson that I learned is we all "have a choice":
a choice of what we think about and what we do. This book will help many readers who struggle with emotions.
We all have a few things to learn and maybe unlearn so we can have great relationships.
Highly recommend this book.

Thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah and Netgalley for the ARC of this book.

4 stars!

This is my second Jennie Allen book, and I love the way that she writes. Her books are always very soundly based in the biblical truth while being super duper practical about how you can actually apply things to your life. There is always a good balance between the personal stories and background behind the topics she writes about and the actual practical applications. Although, I think this one may have had just a little bit too much lead up in the beginning, it very quickly redeems itself, because I think the content of this book was so great.

I definitely fall hard into the category of people who are not so good at naming their emotions and expressing how they feel, and tend to bottle things up. I have read a few different fiction psychology books that walk you through the reasons behind that and how to overcome it, but I feel like this book gave me some really practical tools and brought that process back to God in a way that is very beautiful. I love how she addresses how God gave us these emotions so we don't need to beat ourselves up about them, but how when we bring them to God and process them with Him he can turn them into something beautiful.

This was a joy to read and I am very thankful that WaterBrook & Multnomah provided me a copy in exchange for my honest review. Can't wait to read more of Jennie's books in the future.

This is the 1st Jennie Allen book I’ve read and I loved it. Especially now living in a world where mental health awareness is becoming more prominent - this book is a great resource and starting point on how crucial it is for us to examine, understand, and learn the necessary ways to truly feel our feelings and be able to unpack them in a healthy way.

Although you don’t need to be a Christ Follower to gain insight into this book, it does heavily talk about God and our need to consistently and constantly go back to Him.

Personally, as a Believer, this book was an incredible reminder of how God created us to feel all our emotions and for good reason — We keep needing God. As Jennie said, “We think God is waiting for us to pull ourselves together, but actually He is waiting for us to come to Him and fall apart.”

We’re humans. We feel. Everything. The good and the bad. This book reminds me that it’s healthy to get raw and vulnerable and to share it with those I trust and that it’s okay to get all the necessary help and support I need.

Highly recommend!!

Another great book from the author who brought us Get out of your head and Find your people.

Jennie is an expert on feeling your emotions and uses the Bible to help us explore how to do that. There are many steps when it comes to our emotions, you have to identify them, name them, and allow yourself to feel them..

She really nailed it when she said the most common emotion we seem to allow ourselves to feel is guilt. Jesus has set us free from this guilt.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read and review this book. All opinions are my own.

Jennie Allen is one of my favorites! She brings such a refreshing and relatable outlook on life. I enjoyed this book and will definitely be purchasing it when it’s released.

Wow! This book made me really process a lot with how I handle and express my emotions and how I allow others to process their's as well. Jennie is so very down to earth. She comes from a place of humility, not a place of having it all together. She shares numerous struggles and experiences she and others have had with emotions. I highly recommend this book to everyone. This isn't a fix it and be done book. This is a book I will look back at often and remind myself that God made us to feel and to allow others to do so as well.

Thanks to WaterBrook & Multnomah as well as NetGalley for this ARC!

5 stars for me! As a fixer and someone who is afraid to feel and name my emotions, this book was written for me. Jennie Allen gave words to feelings and emotions I was unable to name or feel. This book has so many practical yet simple answers to such complicated ideas. Emotions to so many can feel heavy, burdened, too much but Jennie shares why God made emotions and why they are a vital part of life in all ways (Physically, spiritually, mentally). Her steps of naming, feeling and sharing with others is what I needed to hear on my journey from always needing to fix instead of feel. I love how she continues to repeat in her writing that emotions are what connect us to God and connects us to others. This book challenged me to share my feelings first over my thoughts. It challenges me to ask how people feel verse what they think. While reading the book I could already see how her words on emotions has made me rethink my relationships to become deeper and more meaningful. I have a feeling that I will read this book again, very soon. #netgalley

Thank you to NetGalley and WaterBrook & Multnomah for the opportunity to read this book and give my honest review!

Progress over perfection is a phrase often used when trying to change a habit. In this case it is trying to identify the web of emotions each of us carry within us. Feeling the feels as some would say, feelings I would numb with a bottle of wine or retail therapy. In Untangle Your Emotions, Jennie Allen gives us a judgement free space to name the emotion, recognizing any ill effects it is having on our mind, our body and most importantly our relationships. With this knowledge in hand we are then able to process, untangle and free ourselves from what is often a crippling state. How many of us have been paralyzed by fear and anxiety? This book is a path to freedom.

Respectfully submitted,
Leslie Warnick

Book Review: Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
I really enjoyed this book by Jennie Allen.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!
As she says “Feelings aren’t something to fix; they are something to feel.”
In previous generations talking about feelings were discouraged. Our generation seems to be the changing point- where feelings are talked about and we are much more open about them.
However, often in the church, feelings have a negative connotation, and Untangle Your Emotions tackles that head on. As Jennie puts it she sometimes felt “feeling difficult feelings indicated a lack of faith”
Jennie Allen recognizes these conflicting messages between Church and Culture, and after going through counselling sessions, and working through this in her own life, she wrote a book to help others navigate their own emotions in a healthy way, without allowing your feelings alone to dictate your decisions. She recognizes that feelings need to be felt, named and communicated- and they are NOT a negative thing. Emotions and Intellect can go hand in hand- and should.
Allowing yourself to feel, and openly talking to others about what you feel, opens the doors to closer connections with God and others. Jennie is able to write about this in such a beautiful way.
I can see this book helping many people.
My only criticism would be for such an already short book, there seemed to be a lot of repetition in the first half, but if this is a new topic for the reader, this may be helpful. As well in Chapter 5 there was a quiz (which I was super excited about- hello type A personality)... but then it was not talked about, or referenced at all.
Overall would recommend. The book is to be released February 13!
Thank you to WaterBrook & Multnomah and Netgalley for an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review

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Emotions are something we don't always want to talk about, nor do we always want to deal with it. Something as simple as saying "I feel" becomes complicated and hard to relate and convey. After finishing this book, I'm blown away at how much thought, and the "breaking down" of explaining emotions is given. I had to slowly read through the chapters not because they were long, but because it was such concentrated rich content to absorb. I kept thinking, I've heard some of these things before but never explained in such a way to give you hope of following through.
Not just saying how you feel, but telling you had to handle those feelings once you've said them. Every emotion is explained and put on the table. Nothing is held back. The raw honest truth of them. What you and I have thought, this author just says it, out loud, and there is no hiding or denying it. She explains that emotions are not to be feared and bottled up (how many times have we heard that?) But it so true and she explains why. She explains what we should do with them when we figure out what they are. To the point, his book is really a wealth of practical knowledge on how to deal with emotions for yourself and other's emotions and how to respond and to name them properly and how to move forward from there.. A book I will definitely be sharing with others and rereading myself.

When I got approved for an ARC of Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen, I was so, so excited! I’ve read some of Jennie’s other work, listened to her podcast, and been a part of IF:Gathering the past 2 years, so I knew this book was going to be full of truth and Godly wisdom.

In everything Jennie does, she keeps it so real, is so honest about her life and own personal struggles, and keeps God at the center of it all.

Regardless of where you land on your religious beliefs, I would highly recommend this book to you if you’re looking for practical ways to understand your emotions and what to do with them! 🫶🏼

And a huge thanks to @NetGalley and @WaterBrookMultnomah for the gifted ARC and opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review! This book officially comes out Feb. 13th, so mark your calendar to get your copy 🗓️