Transforming our painful emotions : spiritual resources in anger, shame, grief, fear, and loneliness /
Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton.
Whitehead, James D.
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. Transforming our passions -- 1. Emotions, our unlikely allies -- 2. Befriending our emotions -- Part two. Anger: an emergency emotion -- 3. Tracking the tigers of wrath -- 4. How we deal with our anger -- 5. An angry spirituality -- Part three. Guilt and shame: the price of belonging -- 6. Boundaries of belonging-- 7. Guises of guilt -- 8. Healthy shame -- 9. Transforming social shame -- Part four. Hidden gifts: grief, loneliness, fear -- 10. The gift of grief -- 11. Learning from loneliness -- 12. Finding fear as a friend -- 13. The Christian script for fear -- Conclusion. The way of the painful emotions -- 14. The way of the painful emotions.
Spiritual life
Emotions