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Emotions Anonymous, Revised Edition
Emotions Anonymous was formed by a group of individuals who found a new way of life by working the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, as adapted for people with emotional problems. It is a fellowship of people who share their experiences, feelings, strengths, weaknesses, and hopes with one another in order to solve their emotional problems and to discover a way to live at peace with unsolved problems. We come to EA to learn to live a new way of life by using the twelve-step program. Through it, we find serenity and acquire peace of mind.
- GenresSelf HelpNonfiction
250 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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August 23, 2026I have no idea how to rate this one. I found it to have some very good and helpful insights, but struggled to accept that we can imagine God to be however we want him to be.
I heard about “Emotions Anonymous” for the first time from a Christian book I was reading called, “Emotional Hoarding.” I was very interested because I do struggle immensely with my emotions - they feel too big and difficult to control sometimes. I feel like they “descend” on me when I least expect it and then I am suddenly activated (fight/flight/freeze/fawn). The primary emotion I struggle with is anxiety…I think anxiety masks some anger I feel because I don’t have the level of control over myself and others that I wish I had. I want to be calm, peaceful and steady as a wife, mom and person. All that to say, I have been in trauma counseling and seeking help for this. So there were some very helpful ideas in this book.
But I started to feel concerned when reading the testimonies at the end and it seems like people basically create whatever they want their god to be in a way that makes sense to them. This frustrates and concerned me because that totally denies absolute truth, found in the Bible, which I feel is foundational to knowing and understanding God and there is only one true God…or He is no real God at all but just an idol I created to make myself feel better.
So I do not think this is the program for me…I live in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex area and they don’t even have one EA group. But I am looking into Celebrate Recovery and Re:generation, but I like how this program is targeted to emotional issues specifically. And I agree that anxiety and depression are just maladaptive ways to avoid the hard things in our lives similar to drug or alcohol addictions…and we can’t get out of these without help and healing from God and healthy relationships.
We need to be honest with ourselves (REALLY hard to do), repair our Vertical relationship with God, and repair our horizontal relationships. But I believe these three areas are broken because of my sin. I like the way the book describes the repair work, but to me it is meaningless without a proper worldview and the real God.
I heard about “Emotions Anonymous” for the first time from a Christian book I was reading called, “Emotional Hoarding.” I was very interested because I do struggle immensely with my emotions - they feel too big and difficult to control sometimes. I feel like they “descend” on me when I least expect it and then I am suddenly activated (fight/flight/freeze/fawn). The primary emotion I struggle with is anxiety…I think anxiety masks some anger I feel because I don’t have the level of control over myself and others that I wish I had. I want to be calm, peaceful and steady as a wife, mom and person. All that to say, I have been in trauma counseling and seeking help for this. So there were some very helpful ideas in this book.
But I started to feel concerned when reading the testimonies at the end and it seems like people basically create whatever they want their god to be in a way that makes sense to them. This frustrates and concerned me because that totally denies absolute truth, found in the Bible, which I feel is foundational to knowing and understanding God and there is only one true God…or He is no real God at all but just an idol I created to make myself feel better.
So I do not think this is the program for me…I live in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex area and they don’t even have one EA group. But I am looking into Celebrate Recovery and Re:generation, but I like how this program is targeted to emotional issues specifically. And I agree that anxiety and depression are just maladaptive ways to avoid the hard things in our lives similar to drug or alcohol addictions…and we can’t get out of these without help and healing from God and healthy relationships.
We need to be honest with ourselves (REALLY hard to do), repair our Vertical relationship with God, and repair our horizontal relationships. But I believe these three areas are broken because of my sin. I like the way the book describes the repair work, but to me it is meaningless without a proper worldview and the real God.
September 3, 2020
This is a great guidebook for the 12 step fellowship of Emotions Anonymous.
June 22, 2012
I've read this but not worked through it. With that said, I am very glad for this book. I've been to about five meetings so far, but am aware that this will a major part of my path to wholeness (along with OA). I really enjoy and got a lot from the Personal Stories as well. I'm looking forward to reading this more throroughly over the years.
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