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Writing for Emotional Balance: A Guided Journal to Help You Manage Overwhelming Emotions [Paperback]

Beth Jacobs Ph.D. (Author)
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Book Description

January 2, 2005

When you've decided you canít take it any more, it helps a great deal to know what it actually is. The process of writing about overwhelming emotions is a remarkably effective means of creating clarity and perspective in your life. Regular journal writers and diarists rely on their writing to help them keep their emotions in perspective; this book distills the best emotional benefits of regular personal writing into a series of engaging and easy-to-practice writing exercises.

Journaling can help balance and regulate your emotions. This book, a guided journal, combines the benefits of journaling practice with sound and practical advice. It gives you information, ideas, and active exercises that can help you feel more comfortable and directed in your emotional life.

While exploring these writing exercises, you’ll discover how to understand the processes of your own emotional system and how to think clearly about your feelings as they happen. As a result, you’ll experience a greater sense of flexibility within yourself and an ongoing confidence in how you live with your emotions.

Learn and Practice the Seven Essential Skills of Emotion Management:

  • Distance yourself from your emotions
  • Define what your emotions mean for you
  • Release blocked and conflicted feelings
  • Regain focus while experiencing overwhelming emotions
  • Use structure and organization to clarify feelings
  • Regroup after an emotional set back
  • Maintain your new skills and incorporate them into your life

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The practice of keeping a journal is increasingly being recommended by therapists and other health care professionals as a tool for gaining a better understanding of one’s life situations and corresponding emotions. In this book, Jacobs provides readers with a progressive, step-by-step guide for doing so easily and effectively. Journals, she writes, are "a checkpoint between your emotions and the world," that enable us to view our feelings from a distance, and to become clearer about the beliefs and attitudes that shape them.

Beginning with an explanation about the value of keeping a journal, Jacobs then guides readers through various processes to clarify our understanding of the subjective nature of emotions and how they are influenced by time and memory. Readers then learn how to define and evaluate their emotions, predict their emotional patterns, release emotions that no longer serve them, and refocus and organize their emotional life in ways that are more appropriate and fulfilling. Supported by over 30 hands-on exercises, this guide is an excellent resource for novice and seasoned journalists alike.--Larry Trivieri Jr.

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Writing for Emotional Balance is a great workbook that is well suited for people who need to get a better understanding of their own emotional lives. Jacobs is a smart and compassionate writer who provides a wide array of exercises that can help people to reach and maintain optimal emotional and mental health.”
—James W. Pennebaker, professor of psychology as the University of Texas at Austin and author of Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotion and Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma and Emotional Upheaval


Product Details

  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; 1 edition (January 2, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1572243821
  • ISBN-13: 978-1572243828
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.1 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Control Your Emotions More Than They Control You!, May 8, 2005
This review is from: Writing for Emotional Balance: A Guided Journal to Help You Manage Overwhelming Emotions (Paperback)
I love the personal and non-judgmental tone of this book! Dr. Jacobs clearly cares about her readers and wants all of us to learn how to manage our emotions better when they get out of hand. Happily, she offers a lot more than just talk. There are 33 exercises in the book plus space to respond to them. In some of the exercises, you get to know yourself better, and in others you practice the techniques she teaches for managing emotions. All you need is a pen or pencil and the desire to control your feelings more than they control you. The book ends up being both a valuable lesson about the way emotions work and an invaluable journal that helps you figure out how YOUR emotions work and how you can become a better manager of them. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to have more control over his or her life!
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for every person's mind control!, April 9, 2006
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I've managed my mind through writing a diary or just scribbling at any moment. This book taught me how I can develop this writing into managing my mind effectively. Very detailed and kind guide for everyone who wants to keep under control themselves well.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Writings...., August 16, 2005
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It isn't as I expected I wanted more space to write and topics to help me get going......
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Our reactions to our world exist in an extremely complex and changeable internal climate of feelings. Read the first page
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