"The Courage to Feel"

by Andrew Seubert

New! Available Now - The new book by Andrew Seubert.

The Courage to Feel - A Practical Guide to the Power and Freedom of Emotional Honesty

"Emotions are complex things: they can make life hell or make it sweet. So, here's a question: Do you have emotions or do emotions have you? Andrew Seubert's The Courage to Feel can help you to have emotions and make your life rich and workable. It's short, easy to understand and very powerful."
- Bill O'Hanlon, author of Change 101

"…the book is a "tour de force." I don't know of anything in the literature that is such a comprehensive and clear guide to an understanding of the central role of emotions and ‘the courage to feel’ in living a healthy, ‘whole-some’, and sacred life, enabling one to experience "the rapture of being alive." Congratulations! You have done many a great service."  
- Clifford Smith, Ph.D.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I - Why Bother?

                        Introduction
Chapter 1 - We Have Feelings, Because...?   
Chapter 2 - What They Are and How They Work

Part II - The Four Steps to Emotional Honesty

                        Introduction
Chapter 3 - Step One: Awareness of Feeling
Chapter 4 - Step Two: Being with the Feeling
Chapter 5 - Step Three: Reading the Message of the Feeling
Chapter 6 - Step Four: Deciding to Act, Express or Not

Part III - Refining Emotional Honesty

Chapter - 7 Avoiding, Burying and Other Survival Strategies
Chapter 8 - Layering
Chapter 9 - Riding the Waves, Surviving the Desert
Chapter 10 - Empty Bowl, Full Bowl
Chapter 11 - What Color is Your Lens?

Part IV - Living the Life of Emotional Honesty

Chapter 12 - The A.R.T. of Emotional Honesty
Chapter 13 - I Like Who I Am With You: Feelings in Relationships
Chapter 14 - Sweet Sorrow: the Pain of  Touch
Chapter 15 - Emotions at Work: Repeating Family Patterns on the Job
Chapter 16 - Guilt, Shame, Pride and Self-Esteem
Chapter 17 - Emotional Navigation Through Change and Addiction
Chapter 18 - Born to Want: Empowerment and Emotional Honesty
Chapter 19 - The Making of an Enemy: Emotions and Global Peace
Chapter 20 - Sentinels: a Fantasy of Transgenerational Release
Chapter 21 - Spiritual Bypass: Emotional Honesty and Spiritual Authenticity     
Chapter 22 - Conclusion: Simon says