What am I feeling? Emotions can be confusing. One moment we're happy, content, and hopeful, and the next we're anxious, hurt, and overwhelmed. But we don't have to live at the mercy of our emotions. In True Feelings, a mother-daughter team clears away common misconceptions and mixed messages about our feelings to offer us a biblical perspective on emotions— helping us understand how they work, why we feel what we feel, and how to develop good emotional habits. We will see that we don't have to ignore, excuse, or follow our feelings, but can instead learn to honor God with our emotions as an integral part of who he made us to be.

This guide helps children meet challenges, use existing skills and develop new ones, reach out to adults and peers, and develop an inner sense of character. It stresses working both alone and with a group to learn constructive ways to express feelings. The end of each activity is designed to help teachers evaluate that activity. Contains rationale, orientation, structure, organization, and manual for each of the two workbooks. Step-by-step procedures provided for each session.

First of all I want to say that writing this book wasn’t easy at all, but I’m thankful to life, to everyone who believed in me and mostly to God, because with him we’re everything and without him nothing would be done. I am a married woman and I have 3 children, 2 girls and one boy. I’m thankful that they’re so good to me, they’ve been very supportive of me and I can always count on them as if they were adults. They understand a lot of things. I’d also like to tell you that I’ve been through depression and it’s very hard to nd one’s true feelings without the help of God. I’ve always been fully dedicated to my family, as a mother and as a housewife, it hasn’t been easy because when I’ve been sick I haven’t always been myself, but if you have faith and love in your heart everything is possible no matter your age. I’m 40 years old and my life’s been very blessed in my life, my mariage and my family. I thank Angelica, Yajaira and Edward for being my children and my husband Elpidio, without them and God none of this would be possible. My story has been very similar to tohers, but I’ve fought agains everything that has happened to me to be able to get the rewards God has given me. I’d just like to tell you to ght. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Blessings for everyone who knows me and for everyone who will get to know me through my rst book.

Exploration of the reality and myth of male emotions

Feelings argues for the counter-intuitive idea that feelings do not cause behavior, but rather follow from behavior, and are, in fact, the way that we know about our own bodily states and behaviors. This point of view, often associated with William James, is called self-perception theory. Self-perception theory can be empirically tested by manipulating bodily states and behaviors in order to see if the corresponding feelings are produced. In this volume, James D. Laird presents hundreds of studies, all demonstrating that feelings do indeed follow from behavior. Behaviors that have been manipulated include facial expressions of emotion, autonomic arousal, actions, gaze, and postures. The feelings that have been induced include happiness, anger, fear, romantic love, liking, disliking, hunger, and feelings of familiarity. These feelings do not feel like knowledge because they are knowledge-by-acquaintance, such as the knowledge we have of how an apple tastes, rather than verbal, knowledge-by-description, such as the knowledge that apples are red, round, and edible. Many professional theories of human behavior, as well as common sense, explain actions by an appeal to feelings as causes. Laird argues to the contrary that if feelings are information about behaviors that are already ongoing, feelings cannot be causes and that the whole mechanistic model of human behavior as "caused" in this sense seems mistaken. He proposes an alternative, cybernetic model, involving hierarchically stacked control systems. In this model, feelings provide feedback to the control systems, and in a further elaboration, this model suggests that the stack of control systems matches a similar stack of levels of organization of the world. An original contribution to the study of the relationship between feelings and behavior, the volume will be of interest to social, emotional, and cognitive psychologists.

In a society that pushes conformity, how can you be courageously authentic despite fear of judgment? Award-winning leadership and diversity expert Ritu Bhasin gives you the tools to make this happen. This is more than a call to "be yourself"-it's a rally to disrupt the status quo, bring your differences to the light, and help others do the same.