What types of feelings are people dealing with?

• Feeling burned out
• Feeling angry
• Feeling fearful
• Feeling grief
• Feeling guilty
• Feeling like you’re on a roller coaster
• Feeling depressed or discouraged
• Feeling inadequate
• Feeling like you’re in over your head with your kids.
• Feeling numb

How do you manage unhealthy, unhelpful feelings?

1)

it (“What am I feeling?)

“My thoughts are restless and I’m confused.” —Psalm 55:2 (NOG)

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has emotions
• Your emotions are a

Reveal Answer

“God created human beings in his own image.” —Genesis 1:27 (NLT)

2)

it (“What emotion gives me the most trouble?”)

David’s emotions documented in Psalms:
• Psalm 3:1 Feeling fear
• Psalm 6:2 Feeling weak
• Psalm 6:3 Feeling abandoned
• Psalm 9:13 Feeling despair
• Psalm 31:9 Feeling grief
• Psalm 34:18 Feeling brokenhearted
• Psalm 35:1 Feeling vulnerable

3)

it (“What can I do to better manage my feelings?”)

• Ask “what am I

into my soul?”

“For as (a man) hath thought in his soul, so is he.” —Proverbs 23:7 (YLT)

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to help

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to help

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“Let the Holy Spirit guide your lives… When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these… But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control… let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.” —Galatians 5:16-25 (NLT)

Local Christian Counseling
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255

Books for Grief
A Grief Observed, CS Lewis; Finding Meaning: The 6th Stage of Grief, David Kessler

Books for Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van Der Kolk

Books for Emotional Health
Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Peter Scazzero; Boundaries, Henry Cloud & John Townsend

Books for Anxiety + Depression
Self Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristen Neff; Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, David Burns; Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the course of Depression, Alex Korb