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All the Feels for Teens: The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the Utterly Confusing
“Part workbook, part self-help guide, part Bible study, this handbook is geared toward those who experience big feelings and could use some support navigating the challenges that come with this territory. . . . Overwhelmed teens can find validation in this faith-based guide.” —Kirkus ReviewsNo one knows about having all the feels quite like teenage girls—but few girls know what to do with all those feelings. They can flit from giddy to anxious to insecure to in love—oops, wait, just kidding, out of love—to chill to stressed to ecstatic to despairing to rebellious to penitent to cynical to naïve to independent to clingy to selfish to selfless, all with a heaping side order of angst and adorkability, all in a span of hours . . . sometimes minutes. In other all the feels all the time.Christian teens need Bible-based help to show them that it’s okay to feel deeply (after all, God himself is the Author of all feelings), but each of us must learn to train our emotions in the ways of Christ. As they learn how to deal with all the feels, girls need scriptural foundations, practical strategies, and the assurance that they are not weird—and never and interactive chartsJournal questionsPrayer promptsScripture lists for different needsDiscussion starters for mothers and daughters or mentors and mentees looking to learn togetherAll the Feels for Teens pairs great with All the Feels, a book designed for adult women.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 5, 2021
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October 3, 2021
I enjoyed this book. The first thing that really resonated with me was the fact that the author continually normalizes feeling feelings. I think so many times, especially as a woman, there is a negative connotation to having emotions. I have often felt that I needed to stuff my feelings and just push through in my life. I think this book drives home the fact that God made us who we are. He is an emotional God, and we reflect that. The author starts the groundwork for identifying our emotions, how God feels about us, how we can build a relationship with God, and how to work through the different emotions and feelings with God.
I felt that the author was so relatable. She shared so many anecdotes from her “super sized” emotional teenage life. It helped remind me what it was like as a teenager and helped me think about what my teenage daughter is going through.
I also loved all the practicals. I have read many spiritual books in my time, and I feel like this one was so helpful. Each chapter had worksheets with questions to ask yourself to dig deeper into the individual topic discussed. Also, the practical advice and the Scriptures at the end of each chapter are excellent!
I think this book will help a lot of teens, and I am looking forward to reading it with my daughter.
I felt that the author was so relatable. She shared so many anecdotes from her “super sized” emotional teenage life. It helped remind me what it was like as a teenager and helped me think about what my teenage daughter is going through.
I also loved all the practicals. I have read many spiritual books in my time, and I feel like this one was so helpful. Each chapter had worksheets with questions to ask yourself to dig deeper into the individual topic discussed. Also, the practical advice and the Scriptures at the end of each chapter are excellent!
I think this book will help a lot of teens, and I am looking forward to reading it with my daughter.
October 6, 2021
I have read the author's "All the Feels" and am so glad that there is now a book for teen women. It's got lots of ways to reframe the stinkin' thinkin' and how to realize that God gave us our feelings, wants to hear about our feelings, even those that aren't so "Christian."
This book is so reassuring and helpful in matching the Truth to what we feel is the truth. I benefited from it even though I'm fully grown, especially chapter 5, which includes tools for ways to study the Bible and how to comprehend what I'm reading. I love reading the book as the author's style of writing makes me feel like we're friends, and I'm hearing her talking to me in a coffee shop, and we're having some good laughs!
This book is so reassuring and helpful in matching the Truth to what we feel is the truth. I benefited from it even though I'm fully grown, especially chapter 5, which includes tools for ways to study the Bible and how to comprehend what I'm reading. I love reading the book as the author's style of writing makes me feel like we're friends, and I'm hearing her talking to me in a coffee shop, and we're having some good laughs!
October 5, 2021
Are you a reluctant feeler? A steady feeler? Or a big feeler? In her humorous and transparent style, Elizabeth Laing Thompson helps teenage girls navigate the journey of their fluctuating emotions. As I read, I found myself chuckling and remembering “ all the feels” of my own teenage years...I wish I’d had this book back then!
Each chapter is packed full of solid Biblical advice to help girls grow and thrive, as well as lots of fun quizzes (you know how teen girls love quizzes)
designed to help them evaluate and process their emotions.
This is a great read for teen girls, moms, brave dads, grandparents, mentors, youth leaders, and anyone else who has a teen girl in their life that they love and would like to see thrive. Highly recommend!
Each chapter is packed full of solid Biblical advice to help girls grow and thrive, as well as lots of fun quizzes (you know how teen girls love quizzes)
designed to help them evaluate and process their emotions.
This is a great read for teen girls, moms, brave dads, grandparents, mentors, youth leaders, and anyone else who has a teen girl in their life that they love and would like to see thrive. Highly recommend!
October 7, 2021
Teens have big emotions, and Elizabeth Laing Thompson is skilled in helping teens handle their feelings. She writes with warmth, compassion and charisma, like a loving aunt who affirms and guides. The book has lots of thoughtful questions and quizzes that teens will enjoy filling out for greater self-discovery. It would make an excellent book for mothers and daughters to discuss, or youth groups to use. A great resource for a teen who feels like she is misunderstood for her big emotions.
I received a preview copy of All the Feels for Teens from the publisher.
I received a preview copy of All the Feels for Teens from the publisher.
October 8, 2021
All the Feels for Teens is winsome, witty, and delightfully practical. Against a beautiful gospel backdrop, Elizabeth shows teen girls how God wonderfully designed their whole being—including their emotions—for His glory, their good, and the blessing of others. I’m definitely giving this book to my teens.
September 24, 2021
Elizabeth hit a home run with All the Feels for Teens. This book makes you laugh and see yourself in many situations and examples she illustrates in the book. I liked her journal prompt questions at the end of each chapter to help you think through and personalize each section. The scriptures at the end of each chapter were a great example of practical application. As a mom of two teen girls, it helped me to understand their emotions more clearly and how I could best point them to working out their feelings from a spiritual viewpoint.
This book is a must read for teen girls!
This book is a must read for teen girls!
October 12, 2021
All The Feels for Teens by Elizabeth Laing Thompson is exactly what teens need to navigate their teenage years with grace and humour. Elizabeth writes from her own experiences as a “big feeler,” normalizing the emotional roller coaster, parental tension and friend uncertainty common to most during this life stage. Elizabeth reminds teens that God made us who we are. He himself is emotional, and we reflect that as we are made in His image. Like a loving Aunt, Elizabeth asks thoughtful questions that identify one’s emotions, response to emotions and how to work through these big feelings WITH God. Filled with tons of practical & Biblical advice, insightful quizzes, scripture reading and questions to ponder, All The Feels for Teens is a timeless resource many will find beneficial for years to come.
October 13, 2021
This book is for anyone who is confused and perplexed by our emotions and what to do with them! Elizabeth Laing Thompson describes the three different types of experiencing our emotions: "big" "steady" and "reluctant" feeler and uses humor, scripture and great examples to help us navigate our way through them. While this book is directed toward teenage girls and the girls, young women and women in their lives, this book is helpful for anyone wanting to understand their God-given feelings and how to live with them in a god-centered way. Even though I am no longer a teenage girl, I found the principles in this book to be very helpful.
October 20, 2021
Where was this book when I was a teen?? The author has done an incredible job of validating the crazy rollercoaster of feelings we can all face while simultaneously presenting us with the truth that our emotions don’t have to control us. Though I’m no longer a teen, myself, I found so much encouragement in her words. I would highly recommend this for the big feelers in your life!
October 5, 2021
This book did an excellent job of helping my teen and myself develop a better understanding of the role feelings play in our relationship dynamics. It has great activities that allowed us to visualize how feelings affect our decisions in real life examples while also giving insight into God’s view concerning those decisions. This book keeps it real. I’m inspired to check out the first book written for women just based on how this teen book has helped me as the mom of a teen.
October 6, 2021
I can't recommend this book enough. Elizabeth does a wonderful job using scripture to help guide us in how to navigate our feelings - all of them. One of my favorite parts of the book are the discussion starters and activities that are provided for parents/teens and mentors/mentees. It helps put everything into practice!
October 11, 2021
A must-read for teen girls on how to conquer "all the feels"
How I wish I had this book when I was a teenaged girl! This is an excellent resource for teen girls and their mothers or caregivers to learn how to sort through and deal with “all the feels”.
Feelings such as insecurity, anxiety, anger, envy, and stress can tie you into knots. But, as the author points out: “Our feelings don’t always tell us the truth. Our feelings are not facts.” With this in mind, that’s where this book can help as it examines these difficult emotions. It looks at what God has to say about them and offers many practical tips on how to handle them with the help of the Bible and prayer.
First of all, you’ll be able to identify if you are a big, steady or reluctant feeling type by completing a quiz. In fact, there are many quizzes and workshops scattered throughout the book to help you work through the material in an interactive and fun way.
In each chapter, the author shares from her own life how these feelings apply to her. Then she looks at characters in the Bible and many scriptures that have helped her. You’ll find journal prompts, a prayer prompt, and a lifeline (scriptures about a particular feeling). She offers practical ideas to help you apply what you have learned in your daily life.
What I like about this book is that this is not a do-as-I-say, but a do-as-I-do book. Elizabeth Laing-Thompson lives out what she is talking about. As a self-confessed Big Feeler, she illustrates with vulnerability and humour you can’t base your Christian faith on how you feel. Also, what I found useful is the importance of self-awareness. How you can use scriptures to reframe what you feel, and that time-outs can work at any age (*chuckle*).
The biggest takeaway is that you have power over your feelings. They don’t need to control you. Finally, with God’s help and his word as your guide, those pesky feelings can become your strengths. I highly recommend this book.
How I wish I had this book when I was a teenaged girl! This is an excellent resource for teen girls and their mothers or caregivers to learn how to sort through and deal with “all the feels”.
Feelings such as insecurity, anxiety, anger, envy, and stress can tie you into knots. But, as the author points out: “Our feelings don’t always tell us the truth. Our feelings are not facts.” With this in mind, that’s where this book can help as it examines these difficult emotions. It looks at what God has to say about them and offers many practical tips on how to handle them with the help of the Bible and prayer.
First of all, you’ll be able to identify if you are a big, steady or reluctant feeling type by completing a quiz. In fact, there are many quizzes and workshops scattered throughout the book to help you work through the material in an interactive and fun way.
In each chapter, the author shares from her own life how these feelings apply to her. Then she looks at characters in the Bible and many scriptures that have helped her. You’ll find journal prompts, a prayer prompt, and a lifeline (scriptures about a particular feeling). She offers practical ideas to help you apply what you have learned in your daily life.
What I like about this book is that this is not a do-as-I-say, but a do-as-I-do book. Elizabeth Laing-Thompson lives out what she is talking about. As a self-confessed Big Feeler, she illustrates with vulnerability and humour you can’t base your Christian faith on how you feel. Also, what I found useful is the importance of self-awareness. How you can use scriptures to reframe what you feel, and that time-outs can work at any age (*chuckle*).
The biggest takeaway is that you have power over your feelings. They don’t need to control you. Finally, with God’s help and his word as your guide, those pesky feelings can become your strengths. I highly recommend this book.
April 17, 2022
I received a free digital copy of this book from a GoodReads giveaway.
I read this book as someone born into a slightly religious household that was raised non-religious and now identify as an atheist. I did not dislike this book as much as I expected to - while cheesy at times, the teen-oriented writing will likely appeal to many young girls. I wish that the Christian nature of the book were more obvious on the cover or in the title. Many issues I found in this book are more rooted in Christian beliefs than the actual writing of the book, but as they are essential to the book, I cannot simply overlook them. I believe the whole "pleasing and trusting God over any humans" can be harmful. There is also the constant pressure to live up to God's standards and make him proud. Sure, he's will forgive you if you mess up, but he's still lingering over you, carefully observing everything you do. I know that if I was exposed to this pressure as that exceedingly anxious and perfectionist teen that I was, I would have struggled unnecessarily to live up to standards that I couldn't have. I also despise the concept of having to spread God's word - why not let the girls have their religions and beliefs and their friends have theirs, even if they are different? Homogeny should not be an ideal state. The quote "God wants godly people to marry other godly people. We should marry inside the faith." blatantly angers me. People of different beliefs and attributes have every right to intermingle as they please and should not be told specifically to do otherwise. Imagine replacing that factor of religion with a factor of race and trying to act like that is an okay statement - it isn't. Something that is not mentioned that I strongly believe is the right to question one's own faith. It's perfectly fine for people at any age to explore what their faith means to them, how it helps them, and how it may be different from another lens. I wish this were explored and encouraged in the book - most people who question and explore their faith return to it with strong devotion than before anyways.
Despite my disagreements, I am very grateful that the author included turning to a trusted adult for feelings of abuse and to trust in therapists, doctors, counselors, etc. as, regardless of religious beliefs, there are certain things we must depend on other humans for. I can see how kids that are religious could enjoy this book and use it as a guide. The end-of-chapter blurbs and activities throughout are a great tool when connecting with young readers.
I read this book as someone born into a slightly religious household that was raised non-religious and now identify as an atheist. I did not dislike this book as much as I expected to - while cheesy at times, the teen-oriented writing will likely appeal to many young girls. I wish that the Christian nature of the book were more obvious on the cover or in the title. Many issues I found in this book are more rooted in Christian beliefs than the actual writing of the book, but as they are essential to the book, I cannot simply overlook them. I believe the whole "pleasing and trusting God over any humans" can be harmful. There is also the constant pressure to live up to God's standards and make him proud. Sure, he's will forgive you if you mess up, but he's still lingering over you, carefully observing everything you do. I know that if I was exposed to this pressure as that exceedingly anxious and perfectionist teen that I was, I would have struggled unnecessarily to live up to standards that I couldn't have. I also despise the concept of having to spread God's word - why not let the girls have their religions and beliefs and their friends have theirs, even if they are different? Homogeny should not be an ideal state. The quote "God wants godly people to marry other godly people. We should marry inside the faith." blatantly angers me. People of different beliefs and attributes have every right to intermingle as they please and should not be told specifically to do otherwise. Imagine replacing that factor of religion with a factor of race and trying to act like that is an okay statement - it isn't. Something that is not mentioned that I strongly believe is the right to question one's own faith. It's perfectly fine for people at any age to explore what their faith means to them, how it helps them, and how it may be different from another lens. I wish this were explored and encouraged in the book - most people who question and explore their faith return to it with strong devotion than before anyways.
Despite my disagreements, I am very grateful that the author included turning to a trusted adult for feelings of abuse and to trust in therapists, doctors, counselors, etc. as, regardless of religious beliefs, there are certain things we must depend on other humans for. I can see how kids that are religious could enjoy this book and use it as a guide. The end-of-chapter blurbs and activities throughout are a great tool when connecting with young readers.
March 8, 2022
A Must-read for Every Teen Girl & Mom
PLEASE NOTE: I received a Kindle version of this title from a GoodReads giveaway. The opinions in this review are my own and have not been influenced by the author or any other person.
This is a very good book about the very emotional teen years. Not only does it help explain what feelings are going on within a teen girl’s body, but it also help girls process their feelings through questions, prayer prompts, and Bible verses. As an added bonus, the author provides discussion questions and activities for teen girls to work through this book with a woman that they trust. I am planning on purchasing a copy of this book for the library in which I work, as well as a copy of the adult version for a friend and a copy of the teen version for her daughter.
PLEASE NOTE: I received a Kindle version of this title from a GoodReads giveaway. The opinions in this review are my own and have not been influenced by the author or any other person.
This is a very good book about the very emotional teen years. Not only does it help explain what feelings are going on within a teen girl’s body, but it also help girls process their feelings through questions, prayer prompts, and Bible verses. As an added bonus, the author provides discussion questions and activities for teen girls to work through this book with a woman that they trust. I am planning on purchasing a copy of this book for the library in which I work, as well as a copy of the adult version for a friend and a copy of the teen version for her daughter.
June 26, 2022
"All the Feels for Teens" is an awe-inspiring book. I found myself relating to every story she shared in one way or another. This book helped me understand my emotions and how I process things. It helped me see myself as the beautifully imperfect creation God made me to be. I know this who read this will find it helpful and enjoyable. It's full of laughs and encouraging stories back by scripture. Whether you're a small or big feeler (like me), this book will CHANGE your perspective on ALL emotions. This will help you learn how to pray deeper and connect to scripture on an emotional level.
October 15, 2021
As a mom of teens and as a Christian who values feelings, I highly recommend this book! I love Elizabeth’s style of writing. She has a unique way of sharing her message, her stories, and Biblical truth, weaving them all together with humor, encouragement and transparency. She’s relatable as well as challenging. I also appreciated the lifeline verses and journal prompts!
June 7, 2025
Loved this book!!! Read it as part of leading a middle school Bible study. highly recommend, and I took so much away from it to apply in my own emotional life... Moms...read it with your daughters. Do the discussions and activities. So good.
June 21, 2022
Enjoyed reading about how to effectively manage my emotions with Faith and how I could use them well to have an impact in my life.
August 21, 2025
It really helped me see what I needed to work on with controlling my emotions.
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