True Feelings: God's Gracious and Glorious Purpose for Our Emotions

What am I feeling?

Emotions can be confusing. One moment we’re happy, content, and hopeful, and the next we’re anxious, hurt, and overwhelmed.

But we don’t have to live at the mercy of our emotions. In True Feelings, a mother-daughter team clears away common misconceptions and mixed messages about our feelings to offer us a biblical perspective on emotions―helping us understand how they work, why we feel what we feel, and how to develop good emotional habits. We will see that we don’t have to ignore, excuse, or follow our feelings, but can instead learn to honor God with our emotions as an integral part of who he made us to be.

• Written by a mother-daughter team with a large following as bloggers and authors
• Encourages women to see their emotions as a gift from God rather than something they should ignore or excuse
• Offers three habits women can cultivate to handle their emotions in a godly way
• Contains an appendix on helping children handle their emotions

Carolyn Mahaney is a pastor’s wife, mother, and homemaker. She has written several books along with her daughter, Nicole, including Girl Talk; True Beauty; and True Feelings. Carolyn and her husband, C. J., have four children and twelve grandchildren. They reside in Louisville, Kentucky, where her husband is the senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville.

Nicole Whitacre is a wife, mother, homemaker, teacher, and author. Together with her mom, she is the co-author of several books, including True Feelings and True Life. Nicole is the founder and lead teacher of Trinitas Classical Academy and a professor at Trinity College of Louisville. She and her husband, Steve, have four grown children and make their home in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. 

Joni Eareckson Tada is CEO of Joni and Friends, a global ministry that serves the practical and spiritual needs of people with disabilities. She is also an artist and the author of numerous bestselling books, including Joni; A Place of Healing; and When God Weeps. Joni and her husband, Ken, reside in Calabasas, California.