I Shouldn't Feel This Way
Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: W Publishing Group (Thomas Nelson)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Learn to see through the haze of conflicted feelings and move forward in your life with confidence. In I Shouldn't Feel This Way, licensed therapist and bestselling author Dr. Alison Cook guides you through a groundbreaking 3-step process to find the emotional freedom you've been longing for. When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight ourselves instead of working our way through complicated feelings. You should be a good friend, even though you feel hurt by past betrayals. You should be content, even though you feel lonely or unfulfilled. You should just have faith, even though you feel discouraged by unanswered prayers. This jumbled-up knot is a cry for gentle care and patient attention, but most of us haven't been given the tools required to unravel it. Drawing from over twenty years of research and clinical practice, I Shouldn't Feel This Way guides you through a groundbreaking 3-step process that has helped tens of thousands of people find emotional freedom and surprisingly simple breakthroughs. Dr. Alison shows you how to: Identify guilt and know what to do with it Trade feeling stuck in your head for clarity Move from comfortable numbing to courageous conversations Make decisions that break cycles of defeat Change starts when you finally stop beating yourself up for the way that you feel and say, You know what? I do feel this way! And I can finally do something about it. I Shouldn't Feel This Way will help you see through the haze of conflicted feelings and move forward in your life with freedom and confidence.
Endorsements (10)
“Praise for I Shouldn’t Feel This Way “I Shouldn’t Feel This Way is a guidebook to finding peace and confidence in life. Dr. Alison’s method guides readers on a path of self-awareness, compassion, and healing. Everyone needs this transformational book!”
“This book is like WebMD for your emotions. Dr. Alison’s three-step method will help you diagnose your biggest feelings and their origins before they blow up your day. A must-read for all of us trying to make sense of our behavior and find healthier ways forward.”
“Learning to understand and navigate the complexity of your own thoughts and emotions is a lifelong journey. I Shouldn’t Feel This Way is more than a map; it’s your GPS. It will give you a thirty-thousand-foot view of the terrain of human emotion and show you which direction to go. Dr. Alison equips you with a straightforward framework to grow in awareness of your own thoughts and feelings, process them, and become a healthier you.”
“Dr. Alison Cook possesses the extraordinary talent of distilling highly complex concepts around faith, psychology, and being human into practical and compassionate takeaways. With signature wisdom and expertise, I Shouldn’t Feel this Way offers readers a nuanced and helpful view into what it means for us to honor the paradoxes and fullness of our God-given humanity. This is such a needed book, and it’s an honor to recommend this important work.”
“I Shouldn’t Feel This Way compassionately helps us name our feelings, shed shame, and move through emotions—all while leading us into the loving embrace of the one who made us. Dr. Cook’s wisdom-soaked words are not just accessible but also highly applicable to our messy, complicated realities. I highlighted my way through this illuminating book, and I’m grateful for how it speaks into my life as a parent, wife, neighbor, and friend.”
“Dr. Alison’s latest book is perhaps her most down-to-earth and simple yet profoundly wise. Amid sometimes-complex therapeutic takes and terms and within the conflicts of our own lives, we need clear ways of naming what’s happening, framing our reality, and braving our way forward. This is everyday wisdom born out of a holy imagination and offered with clarity and conviction.”
Dr. Chuck DeGroat
“Dr. Alison Cook gently and poetically equips readers with her simple but powerful framework to untangle the messy and conflicting thoughts that weigh so many of us down. She offers a refreshing approach to understanding guilt and a clear path out so that we can be free to live our lives with lightness, joy, and peace.”
Dr. Morgan Cutlip
“True to Dr. Alison’s anointed approach, in I Shouldn’t Feel This Way she invites, disarms, equips, and renews the reader with a healthier and more loving understanding and acceptance of self. This book is imaginative in explaining and embracing our emotions and thoughts as part of the marvelous creation we are.”
“Dr. Alison has done it again with I Shouldn’t Feel This Way! With the voice of a trustworthy guide, a wise teacher, and a close companion, Alison brilliantly shows us that feelings are not problems to be solved but gifts to be stewarded. And when stewarded well, our feelings can actually be an avenue of freedom, deep connection with others, and courageous action. I Shouldn’t Feel This Way is a practical and profound treasure I will personally return to again and again and a resource I am eager to recommend to friends and clients in my counseling practice. Join me in filling the margins with notes. This book is a gift—a gift we all need.”
“When I feel lost in the forest of life’s emotional upheavals and confusion, I’d settle to have a map that would help me gather my bearings and point me in the direction of home. But even more so, I would love to have a guide that is not only familiar with the map but knows the forest without even needing it—and will walk with me to keep me from getting lost again. With I Shouldn’t Feel This Way we have our map, and in Alison Cook we have our guide. For those whose hearts are looking for the way home while making sense of the journey along the way, I can think of no better place to start.”
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