Meditations on the Psalms helping women to express their feelings to God. Hardback with ribbon marker.
Many of us suppress our feelings because we’re worried they are ungodly. Others of us are so led by our emotions that we let them dominate everything, including our faith.
In these honest, personal and uplifting meditations on 24 selected psalms, Courtney Reissig looks at emotions we all experience, ranging from shame, anxiety, and anger through to gratitude, hope, and joy. For each, she shows how the psalms give us permission to acknowledge how we feel before God, and how they can help us to use those feelings productively and faithfully.
This inspiring book will give women a language to cry out to God in order to help them process their feelings, as well as help them to grow in their faith. Can be used as a daily devotion.
Introduction: How a Familiar Psalm Helped Me in My Fear
Includes Chapters For When You Feel…
Let down (Ps. 55)
Forgotten by God (Ps. 22)
Worthless (Ps. 8)
Grief (Ps. 31)
Envy (Ps. 73)
Anxious (Ps. 13)
Stuck Spiritually (Ps. 119)
Content (Ps. 131)
Grateful (Ps. 103)
Forgiven (Ps. 32)
Hopeful (Ps. 84)
| Contributors | Courtney Reissig |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781784985134 |
| Format | eBook |
| First published | January 2020 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Good Book Company |
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.”
Endorsement written for Teach Me To Feel
We know that God intends to change how we think and how we behave, but we don’t always expect that God intends to change how we feel. But, as Teach Me to Feel so beautifully shows, God has given us a whole book to guide us into feeling rightly. With profound insights tucked into short chapters, this book helps us as readers apply the words of the psalmists to our own souls—leading us into honesty with God, confidence in God, and joy with God.
Endorsement written for Teach Me To Feel
I love the Psalms, and Courtney Reissig has made me cherish them even more. In Teach Me to Feel, she shows us how to honestly process our feelings with God, using psalms to express our deepest emotions. If you’ve ever felt misunderstood, lonely, or overwhelmed, and wondered how to biblically process your feelings, this book is for you. You’ll discover how to lament, find hope, and rejoice through all of life, drawing you closer to the God of all comfort.
This book is written specifically for women. Emotions are tricky things, they can override and take over or we can suppress them, neither is helpful.... continue reading
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.
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!
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.
I bought this for a friend, who found it a wonderful help and comfort.
I love this book; I wanted to be friends with the author from the introduction. Her written style is so warm and winsome that you are immediately reassured that you are not in the battle alone.
I have a young baby and he had not afforded us much sleep when I first picked up this book. I was at the end of my rope and these devotional were like soothing balm on my soul. It pointed me to God’s Word and in those sleepless nights I learnt Psalms 1 & 2 by heart. They have been an anchor for me when I continue to struggle and I (never thought I’d say this) thank God for those sleepless nights.
Enjoying a book whilst in the midst of sleep-deprivation is surely high praise indeed!
Cannot recommend highly enough.
Thank you, Courtney.
