Dealing with Feeling

Dealing with Feeling

Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want
by Marc Brackett
Psychology 19 min read ★★★★½ 4.5 (93)
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About This Book

Dealing with Feeling (2025) examines the emotional literacy gap, or the inability to recognize and regulate emotions, along with the steep costs this dysregulation creates across all areas of life. It offers a practical system for building the emotional skills that schools and families failed to teach.

Who Should Read This?

  • Those struggling with emotional management who recognize patterns of suppression or explosion in their own lives
  • People navigating difficult relationships at work, at home, or in their personal lives
  • Anyone who feels their emotions control them rather than inform them

About the Author

Marc Brackett, PhD is the founding director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and a professor in the Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine. He’s published over 125 scholarly articles on emotional intelligence and is the lead developer of RULER, an evidence-based social and emotional learning approach adopted by more than 2,000 schools. His previous book, Permission to Feel, became a best seller and has been translated into 27 languages.