I Shouldn't Feel This Way: Name What’s Hard, Tame Your Guilt, and Transform Self-Sabotage into Brave Action

Written by Alison Cook, PhD

Narrated by Alison Cook, PhD

Read by the author.

Learn to see through the haze of conflicted feelings and move forward in your life with confidence.

In I Shouldn't Feel This Way, licensed therapist and bestselling author Dr. Alison Cook guides you through a groundbreaking 3-step process to find the emotional freedom you've been longing for.

When you're tangled up inside, it's hard to find clarity. Yet so many of us guilt-trip or gaslight ourselves instead of working our way through complicated feelings. You should be a good friend, even though you feel hurt by past betrayals. You should be content, even though you feel lonely or unfulfilled. You should just have faith, even though you feel discouraged by unanswered prayers. This jumbled-up knot is a cry for gentle care and patient attention, but most of us haven't been given the tools required to unravel it.

Drawing from over twenty years of research and clinical practice, I Shouldn't Feel This Way guides you through a groundbreaking 3-step process that has helped tens of thousands of people find emotional freedom and surprisingly simple breakthroughs. Dr. Alison shows you how to: 

• Identify guilt and know what to do with it
• Trade feeling stuck in your head for clarity
• Move from comfortable numbing to courageous conversations
• Make decisions that break cycles of defeat

 

Change starts when you finally stop beating yourself up for the way that you feel and say, You know what? I do feel this way! And I can finally do something about it. I Shouldn't Feel This Way will help you see through the haze of conflicted feelings and move forward in your life with freedom and confidence.

The exercise can be found in the audiobook companion PDF download.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Release date: May 7, 2024
• ISBN: 9781400234820

Alison Cook, PhD

Dr. Alison Cook is a therapist and host of the top-ranked The Best of You podcast. She is the author of the ECPA bestselling book The Best of You and coauthor of Boundaries for Your Soul. Widely recognized as an expert at the intersection of faith and psychology, Dr. Alison empowers individuals to heal from past wounds, develop a strong sense of self, forge healthy relationships, and experience a loving God who is for them. She and her husband, Joe, are the parents of two adult children. They call both Boston and Wyoming home. Connect with Dr. Alison at www.dralisoncook.com.

Reviews for I Shouldn't Feel This Way

[Rebecca Montoya Conrow · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dr. Cook is practical in her approach to complexities of life. Loved it! The Church has a long way to go in restoring those who are hurting, struggle with mental health and are stuck because of so much compounded trauma. She is paving the way for a revolution!