Jennie Allen: 2024 DLW Podcast Awards Rd. 1

Help Me Pick the Best Podcast Conversation of 2024!Every week for Wildcard Wednesday, I'll give you one of my (and your) top-four favorite interviews for the first quarter of the year. Then we'll have a survey for you to vote and choose a winner to move onto the semi-finals. After next quarter is over, we'll pick a winner from Q2, and then you can choose the finalist from the first half of the year by voting between those two. At the end of the year, we'll let the two semi-finalist winners battle to become the inaugural Dr. Lee Warren Podcast Award winner! Let's listen to these amazing conversations and then honor our guests for sharing their stories and their wisdom with us. Follow me @drleewarren on Instagram to keep up with the tournament as the year progresses!Today, a look at the interplay between feelings and thoughts, a part of your brain called the corpus striatum, the importance of tonically active neurons, and a conversation with Jennie Allen! "Don't Let Your Emotions Get the Best of You." We've all heard it, but is it sound advice? Jennie Allen is on the podcast today to talk about her new book, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It. Plus: the story of how Jennie Allen is directly responsible for Lisa and me moving from Alabama to Wyoming to Nebraska! This is a powerful talk about what I believe will be one of the most important books of 2024. From Amazon.com:The New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head provides a revolutionary path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, one that leads to life-giving connection with God and others as well as to a richer understanding of yourself.“This book is worth thousands of dollars of counseling.”—Jonathan Pokluda, bestselling author and host of the Becoming Something podcastHow often have you heard, “Don’t let your emotions get the best of you”? But what if instead of ignoring our feelings, we noticed them, named them, and let God use them to draw us closer to Himself and others? Many of us need to unlearn damaging messages about our emotions. We’ve been taught, for example, that emotions are untrustworthy, when, in fact, God can use them to help us see where we need His healing. In Untangle Your Emotions, Jennie Allen uses scientific research, biblical insight, and her own story to help you ● exchange stuffing, dismissing, or minimizing your emotions for a five-step process to know what you feel and what to do about it ● debunk the myth that feelings are sinful by learning how emotional maturity leads to deeper connection with God and others ● live emotionally healthy by applying biblical wisdom and therapeutic research that works whether you self-identify as “emotional” or not ● sit with feelings that are confusing and painful by discovering the depth of God’s love and compassion for you Book: Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It by Jennie Allen SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The Spiritual Brain Surgery Podcast is now live everywhere! Please consider listening and subscribing by clicking one of the links below! 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(00:01) - Introduction (01:52) - Spiritual Brain Surgery with Jenny Allen (31:02) - Conversation with Jenny Allen Starts (32:32) - Personal Background and Trauma Sharing (35:21) - Navigating Emotions as Christians (36:16) - Emotions as Gifts from God (37:23) - An Emotionally Aware God (38:23) - Jesus' Emotional Compassion (39:15) - Finding Abundance in Emotions (40:21) - Living an Epic Life (41:20) - Navigating Grief and Hope (41:57) - Allowing Vulnerability with Jesus (42:59) - Emotions for Connection (43:35) - Journey to Emotional Intelligence (44:47) - Simple Steps to Emotional Awareness (45:52) - Connecting with Emotions and God (46:36) - Handling Emotions in Relationships (47:11) - Building Connection Through Emotions (47:45) - Finding Peace in Facing Sadness (48:33) - Noticing, Naming, and Sharing Emotions (49:48) - The Healing Power of Emotional Expression (50:40) - The Plethora of Emotional Words (52:15) - The Consequences of Suppressing Emotions (52:40) - Emotions for Connection, Not Control (53:19) - Encouraging Emotional Vulnerability (53:48) - The Power in Recognizing Emotions (54:48) - Reflecting on Emotional Insights (58:35) - The Importance of Accepting Emotions (59:43) - Unpacking Core Emotional Struggles (01:00:25) - Motivation to Embrace Emotions (01:01:00) - Embracing Emotions in Grief (01:02:12) - Support Through Emotional Connection (01:02:40) - Connecting Through Shared Emotions (01:03:02) - The Science Behind Emotional Connection (01:05:19) - Emotional Awareness and Biblical Teaching (01:05:51) - Utilizing Pause, Permission, Perspective, Persist (01:07:44) - Jesus' Model of Emotional Connection (01:10:20) - Finding Light in Emotional Darkness (0...