Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. It's been a rough couple months, hasn't it?

I mean, let's not lie, it's been a rough few years. Like, on top of the big news stories dealing with death and sickness and violence and all that,

we've got all our own personal stuff going on, right? And we don all deal with the emotions that come with these things in our own way. You know, my preferred method is to, you know, not think about it and pretend, everything's cool. Everything's fine. It's no big deal. I'm all right. I'm all right. You know, it's good. It's a good. Which apparently isn't a great way to approach things.

Luckily enough, our buddies over at its been a minute talk to Liz Foslin and Molly West Duffy,

who wrote this book called Big Feelings, How to Be Okay, When Things Are Not Okay.

And they told NPR's Wano Summers how they've been dealing with the day-to-day of these past few years.

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You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR. I'm Juana Summers. I think it's safe to say that many of us have been on an emotional roller coaster this last couple years. For me, that's felt a little bit like living in a state of suspension. You know, I had all of these plans for what the next few years of my life would

look like. And as the pandemic set in, those plans all got put on hold. It meant messing

meaningful time with loved ones, time I can't get back, putting off big decisions,

shifting the timelines for other things I wanted to do. Burnout, waiting through

grief, in isolation. And sometimes thinking about all of that, it just feels overwhelming.

We all feel these things regardless of who you are and where you are in life. You are going to go through

difficult periods

and have days that aren't as great as others.

That's Liz Foslian.

She's one of the authors of the new book, Big Feelings.

How to be okay when things are not okay.

In the book, Liz and her co-author, Molly West Duffy, explore seven emotions that they found particularly difficult to overcome.

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