Transforming Our Painful Emotions

by Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton

• ISBN13: 9781570758706
• ISBN10: 1570758700
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

A psyhological and spiritual exploration of the positive potential hidden in our painful emotions. Its key conviction: our bad feelings can be good news, alerting us to endangered values, alarming us to hopes under siege, and arming us for the tough tasks of change. Filled with lively examples, the Whiteheads demonstrate how negative emotions can lead to personal growth, spiritual development, and social transformation. Family wounds, cultural temptations, and religious malpractice make it difficult for us to plumb the meaning of our passions. Breaking through these obstacles is part of spirituality's healing task.

Author Biography

Evelyn and James Whitehead, long associated with the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University in Chicago, have coauthored a dozen books that are still in print and have been translated into several languages. Their two best selling books are Christian Life Patterns (100,000 copies sold) and Method in Ministry (30,000 copies sold). They live in South Bend, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Transforming Our Passions
Emotions, Our Unlikely Allies	p. 3
Befriending Our Emotions	p. 18
Anger: An Emergency Emotion
Tracking the Tigers of Wrath	p. 35
How We Deal with Our Anger	p. 50
An Angry Spirituality	p. 63
Guilt And Shame: The Price of Belonging
Boundaries of Belonging	p. 81
Guises of Guilt	p. 93
Healthy Shame	p. 108
Transforming Social Shame	p. 120
Hidden Gifts: Grief, Loneliness, Fear
The Gift of Grief	p. 135
Learning from Loneliness	p. 147
Finding Fear as a Friend	p. 162
The Christian Script for Fear	p. 175
Conclusion: The Way Of The Painful Emotions
The Way of the Painful Emotions	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 207
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