Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Joyce Meyer's, "Managing Your Emotions"

I had the pleasure of reading Joyce Meyer’s Managing Your Emotions-Instead of Your Emotions Managing You. Joyce has been teaching the Word of God since 1976. She has written many books that specify different aspects of her ministry, along with hosting her own broadcast radio and television show.
In this book, Joyce teaches the reader how to mange the different emotions and feelings that we have throughout our everyday lives. She explains that it is ok for us to be emotional and feel emotions; for they teach us to recognize how we are being treated by others, treating others, and treating ourselves. The challenge is being able to manage those emotions so that they don’t control us, but rather we control them and react in a positive manner versus a negative one.
Joyce breaks the book down into different emotional issues such as: Healing of Damaged Emotions 1&2, Emotions and the Process of Forgiveness, Mood Swings, Understanding and Overcoming Depression, etc. She writes this book in a way that any personality type would be able to recognize themselves in her writings. Joyce uses experiences from her own life and marriage as examples of issues that we all go through. Everyone goes through emotional conflicts and breakdowns, and in this book Meyer teaches us how to understand different personality traits, as well as the emotional conflicts that are associated with those traits. I truly enjoyed reading this book. Immediately I was able to associate myself with some of the emotional characteristics that she spoke about. I feel that I have grown from reading it and that others will be able to do the same.

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