This is Jenny Allen and you are listening to the Made for This Podcast.

These two weeks before we get into the season of

untangle your emotions, we're talking about the tie

between get out of your head and untangle your emotions.

We all know these are closely related things,

our thoughts and our feelings.

These are tightly knit.

It's in fact, it's very hard to carve them apart

and to treat them separately,

yet they are very separate and they are very different

how we are to respond to them. I would just say I think we've

lumped them in together we've acted like well we can control our thoughts and we can

control our emotions and I think that's a dangerous way to live that if we are controlling that means we are trying to stuff down and

Bring them into order when the reality is the very nature of an emotion is that you are feeling something that feels a little bit out of your

control sadness nobody wants to feel sad if we could control that we would never

feel sad and so these are different and how we approach them is different.

So what I wanted to do in this last week before we head into this season

is just to give you a little framework of how these things come together.

And I just got off an interview with someone about the book. He's actually a

neurosurgeon and he said, you know, I read it out of her head and I loved it but I

think I like this but better and I think probably the reason he said that is

because he needed this but more.

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