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Like many Christians, I have struggled with where and how my emotions fit with my faith. For a long time I had trouble even recognizing my emotions, because I had always thought of myself primarily as a thinking person, not a feeling person. In my 30's, I learned to recognize my emotions better, and to see that even the "negative" emotions could help me gain insight into my situation and give me energy to change things that needed to be changed. But I never really put those ideas into practice a whole lot. I tend to try to ignore negative emotions because they seem to just make things worse as I dwell on what's bothering me. This book provides information and steps to follow to really understand what is going on when we feel emotions, positive or negative. I'm still not sure what I think about some of what Schelske says about the emotional content of joy and love in the Scriptures, as opposed to the teaching I am used to, that they are choices rather than feelings. But he gives a lot of food for thought on these subjects.