Big Feelings

How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay

By: Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy

Narrated by: Liz Fosslien, Mollie West Duffy

From the duo behind the bestselling book No Hard Feelings and the wildly popular @LizandMollie Instagram, an insightful and approachable illustrated guide to handling our most difficult emotions.

We all experience unwieldy feelings. But between our emotion-phobic society and the debilitating uncertainty of modern times, we usually don't know how to talk about what we're going through, much less handle it. Over the past year, Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy’s online community has laughed and cried about productivity guilt, pandemic anxiety, and Zoom fatigue. Now, Big Feelings addresses anyone intimidated by oversized feelings they can't predict or control, offering the tools to understand what's really going on, find comfort, and face the future with a sense of newfound agency.

Weaving surprising science with personal stories and original illustrations, each chapter examines one uncomfortable feeling—like envy, burnout, and anxiety—and lays out strategies for turning big emotions into manageable ones. You’ll learn:

• How to end the cycle of intrusive thoughts brought on by regret, and instead use this feeling as a compass for making decisions
• How to identify what’s behind your anger and communicate it productively, without putting people on the defensive
• Why we might be suffering from perfectionism even if we feel far from perfect, and how to detach your self-worth from what you do

Big Feelings helps us understand that difficult emotions are not abnormal, and that we can emerge from them with a deeper sense of meaning. We can’t stop emotions from bubbling up, but we can learn how to make peace with them.


* This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of illustrations, assessments, and resources from the book

Life changing

Absolutely brilliant insight into emotions and healing modalities. I have truly enjoyed this masterpiece.

This book is amazing! Gives you great insight.

Love this book. Gives great insight into restoring your sense of control. Liz puts put incredible content

Feels like therapy (in a VERY good way)

Seriously, this book felt like I was in a therapy session. It was hard to get through, but only because I'm also working through hard stuff right now with my own therapist. I've never felt this deep of a connection with an audio book before. I felt understood. The authors' voices are so soothing. I'll be listening to this again and again, to help me through the many seasons of life and remember that if I did the hard thing once, I can do it and other hard things again.

Excellent book for current times!

Many of us are currently going through a barrage of feelings and this book helps us navigate through our own feelings and being able to add resources in our toolkit to deal with these feelings. Thank you for writing such a relatable book!

Amazing book

Loved the book! It was so insightful and relevant! It’s amazing to read such an authentic and thoughtful book about all feelings we might feel shame to talk about. Will re-read it and recommend to family and friends. Thank you, Liz and Mollie!