“The mental well-being of children and adults is shockingly poor. Marc Brackett, author of Permission to Feel, knows why. And he knows what we can do.”
Permission To Feel
Permission to Feel (Celadon/Macmillan) inspires a new mindset around the power of emotions to transform our lives. Using science, passion, and lively storytelling, Dr. Brackett guides us to understand our own and others’ emotions, as well as provides innovative strategies for developing emotional intelligence in adults and children so that emotions help, rather than hinder, our success and well-being.
Title: Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Author: Marc Brackett
Publisher: Celadon Books
ISBN: 978-1-250-21284-9
On Sale Date: 9/3/2019
Formats: Hardcover, eBook
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Praise for Permission to Feel
“More than any other book on human feelings, Permission To Feel integrates psychological research, educational practice, and compelling stories, including Marc Brackett’s own life experiences, to make emotional intelligence come alive. This is one book that leaders, educators, parents, students, and researchers will all find valuable… and fun to read.”
PETER SALOVEY
PRESIDENT OF YALE UNIVERSITY AND CHRIS ARGYRIS PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
“This book is groundbreaking, eye-opening, practical, and perhaps even life-changing. Weaving together powerful stories and provocative research, Marc Brackett brilliantly conveys how social and emotional skills can improve the quality of our lives, relationships, and work. With compassion, humor, and wisdom Brackett shares perspectives that challenge us all to be better people.”
ROGER WEISSBERG
DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO; CHIEF KNOWLEDGE OFFICER, COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
“Permission to Feel” changed my life, work, and outlook on life. Growing up, feelings were intended to be ignored (I was always called sensitive). I had a lot of learning (and unlearning) to do in adulthood. Your book, I genuinely believe, saved my life.
Thank you so, so much. You inspire me.
Dr. Austin D. Smith
Director of Secondary Education
“In business, we are often pressured to withhold or suppress emotions, ultimately creating toxic environments and interpersonal conflict. In Permission to Feel, Marc Brackett teaches essential skills and tools for bringing our best selves forward. The results? Enhanced personal and professional outcomes, and healthier and more engaging workplaces. A must-read for every entrepreneur — and their investors.”
DEBORAH QUAZZO
MANAGING PARTNER GSV ACCELERATE FUND
A psychologist I know recommended the book to me, and it is one of only a few books that have changed my life. You have profoundly changed the way I approach emotion and, thus, approach myself.
I’m 60 years old and an ex-lawyer. Partly as a result of your book, I am entering a two-year Master Degree program this fall in mental health counseling. My goal is to work with adolescents with severe depression or psychosis who have multiple past suicide attempts. I’m the father of such an adolescent.
I’m also taking a summer school course this summer at the Harvard Extension School with Elizabeth Phelps. Just an Introduction to Psychology. But I have to start somewhere!
David Johnson
Springfield, MA
“I love this book! Marc Brackett has inspired me to be more open; taught me how to become an emotion scientist; and given me the tools to heal wounds in my own life. Permission To Feel is raw, insightful, accessible, and in the end, empowering.”
TIMOTHY SHRIVER
CHAIRMAN, SPECIAL OLYMPICS
“A compelling and complete journey that delivers on its promise of giving us permission to feel. Marc Brackett shows us that emotional intelligence is not a gift but a skill ― one that we can all learn, and benefit from immensely.”
ANGELA DUCKWORTH
AUTHOR OF GRIT, CEO, CHARACTER LAB, AND PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
“We often create a false dichotomy between thinking and feeling. In this dichotomy, thinking is important, strong, and adaptive, but feeling is not. Marc Brackett shows us how emotions ― and our ability to feel, understand, and use them ― are key to fulfilling our potential.”
CAROL DWECK
AUTHOR OF MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESS AND PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
“There is a dire need to cultivate social and emotional skills in our nation’s youth. That starts with cultivating emotional intelligence in everyone involved in the education of children. Permission to Feel lays a framework for what adults need to learn in order to support children — and themselves — in achieving academic and life success.”
CARMEN FARIÑA
CHANCELLOR EMERITUS, NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
I'm 57 years old and have been married for 27 + years to a wonderful woman who has struggled for years to get me to become better in touch with my emotions. I've been in therapy off and on for general/mild issues and have never been as 'struck' as I have been with the way you are communicating/teaching how to think about emotions. I just wanted to say thank you - I believe what I'm learning now with your book will be paying off dividends for years to come!
Ben Gardner
As a woman in her mid fifties, the practice of expressing our feelings was not readily welcomed in my home growing up. We were a family of grit and resilience- important traits and qualities, but we were not in touch with how we felt. Being out of tune with my emotions did a number on me.
Fortunately, (with the help of my resilience) , I discovered and read your book and shared it with my grown sons and daughter in law with the hope that we would begin to cultivate the practice of tuning into our feelings and that future generations would be introduced to the concept at much earlier ages!
Marcella Carroll
