Teach Me To Feel

Leni-Jo McMillan

Endorsement written for Teach Me To Feel

Today, we are told that "emotional intelligence" is essential for proper functioning in our personal and work lives. But can we rely on it? Courtney presents her readers with the richest possible source through which we may interpret and manage our feelings—namely, the psalms. Courtney helps us to praise and pray the psalms in the ups and downs of our own everyday experience now and through to the New Creation. Whether praising God or challenging sin, each chapter is a balm for the soul. I would have happily worked through another dozen psalms with Courtney!

Lauren Chandler

Endorsement written for Teach Me To Feel

I’ve always had a difficult relationship with my emotions. I have suppressed them in shame, or I have let them loose with reckless abandon. Neither approach has served me well. This is why I appreciate Courtney Reissig’s newest offering, Teach Me How to Feel. Through her own wrestle with emotions, she points us to the place where the Lord taught her how to feel them—the Psalms. I found great comfort in her words and the insight she brings to these ancient songs. There’s nothing like a friend—modern or ancient—to tell us, “I’ve been there too.”

“Wonderful”

This is a revised version of Courtney's original book that came out in 2020 during the Covid 19 crisis. It holds as much relevance now as it did three years ago. Her original work went through twenty-two emotions while this revised version is updated to include twenty four emotions.

Reissig utilizes the Psalms to walk readers through several emotions that we will inevitably face. These emotions range from the more difficult - Despair, Forsaken, Grief, Ashamed, Envy, to the more hopeful - Content, Forgiven, Worship, Praise.

Every single person, whether a believer or not, struggles to understand, process, and handle their emotions in an effective and efficient way. It's a life long journey to learn how to feel in a way that honors God's intentions and purpose for us. Reissig doesn't shy away from sharing the reality of our struggle: knowing how to embrace our emotions in the moment without dishonoring God.

God created us with emotions and therefore we should learn and discover how to process those emotions in the way God intended us to. Courtney has a great ability to draw out the practical insights of the Psalms along with encouraging the reader to love God more deeply through our emotions.

You will walk away from this book with incredible knowledge and understanding of emotions, practical processes to handle those emotions, and most importantly, a deeper sense of who God is and His intentions for our feelings.

I received a copy of this book from The Good Book Company in exchange for an honest review.

“So much to glean from on how the Psalms teach us how to respond to our feelings!”

This book is a walk through the book of Psalms and how it teaches us to respond to our feelings. Courtney begins by sharing a very personal and emotional story of a time when she was going through a hard time and how she turned to the Psalms for help.

I loved this book! I gleaned so much and was reminded of so much too. From God's soverignty in all, to finding our contentment in God alone and not our circumstances, how guilt should drive us to God and repentance, and so much more! Definitely reccomend this book. It has great reflection questions and is meant to be read along with Scripture for a deeper understanding and knowledge of God's word.

Thank you to @thegoodbookcompanyusa for a copy of this book for my honest thoughts!

“The Word Prayed and Lived Out”

I first read this book in the Spring of 2020. I had within it a tool to use the Psalms to guide and guard my own emotions, as well as understand the often extreme emotions that churned around us all during that intense year of the pandemic. Now this summer, as a women's ministry director, I am using the book for a book club confident it will be helpful and impactful for the women I lead.

“You must buy this book.”

I bought this for a friend, who found it a wonderful help and comfort.