Untangle Your Emotions Quotes

“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.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human. We transform slowly into empty shells with smiley faces painted on them.”[3]”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Feelings aren’t meant to be fixed. Feelings are meant to be felt.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“I’ve learned the secret in life: Never do anything alone. The scarier something is”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“In Ecclesiastes”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Life is complex. It is messy. It is marked by confusion and curiosity and pain. On way too many occasions”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Resilience and perseverance require hope.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“You have heard it before that the boost you get from exercise in your serotonin is similar to that of medicine. Whenever you feel like you are getting tangled up emotionally”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Honestly”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“As I have shared”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Often”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“The ones who love Jesus are zealots. The ones who love Jesus really love Jesus. They throw off their sin and struggles faster than anyone I have seen so they can follow Jesus with reckless abandon. They want God. And it isn’t even complicated for them. They just want more of Him.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“According to new CDC data released today”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Freedom always costs us something. It costs us appearances”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“And before I fully understood what was happening”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“I asked everyone in attendance to set down the burden they’d been carrying”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“We don’t keep secrets; secrets keep us.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“once we notice what we feel”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“After you go through the paces of noticing”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“In a Psychology Today interview”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“What is the biggest challenge you are facing right now”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Emotional granularity is the ability to describe your emotional state using nuanced words and phrases instead of generic ones. Here’s what’s fascinating about emotional granularity: Feelings experts have shown that there is a direct proportional connection between a person’s emotional granularity and their mental health”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“I think of how long I misunderstood all the “Fear not” language throughout the Bible. I’ve heard a hundred sermons telling us how much God does not want us to fear”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“But imagine if we let our anger draw us to God instead of to sin”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Emotional maturity is the ability to feel what we feel without judgment and without being controlled by our emotions. Emotional wholeness begins by noticing and naming what we feel and then deciding what to do with it”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Psychology confirms that emotions are intricately connected to our motivational system”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Step one of connection through feelings? It’s to notice how we feel. I asked myself a simple question: How am I feeling?”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Emotions are best healed in community. They are best healed there because they were given to us to connect us to others. Crying alone is cathartic; crying together heals us.”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“Emotions always enter in a three-phase approach: Inciting event: You encounter an event as trivial as picking up your dry cleaning or as devastating as receiving a cancer diagnosis. Prediction: Your mind (usually subconsciously) makes a prediction as to whether this is a positive or negative event. Effect: Your body and mind react”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It

“I know you think ignoring these emotions is not costing you anything. But it is. According to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Rochester”
― Jennie Allen, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It