Big Feelings

On sale April 26th, 2022, order your copy today!

Uncertainty. Anger. Despair. Envy. When you’re overwhelmed by big feelings, it can seem like you’re the only one who is struggling. But having difficult emotions doesn’t mean you’re malfunctioning. It means you’re human.

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 making it manageable. You’ll learn:

  • How to use regret as a compass for making decisions

  • How to identify what’s behind your anger and communicate it productively

  • Why you might be suffering perfectionism, 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. Order your copy today.

Select praise for Big Feelings

“Over the past few years, our emotions have often gotten the better of us. This book will restore your sense of control—and make you feel less alone in the world. Liz and Mollie do an outstanding job bringing your fuzziest feelings into sharp focus.” — Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

"Big Feelings is a work of tremendous heart. Filled with vulnerability, humor, and hard-won insights, it offers concrete tools to help us move through difficult emotions." — Lori Gottlieb, New York Times Bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone and co-host of the "Dear Therapists" podcast

“Writing (and drawing) with their signature insight and humor, Liz and Mollie dispense the wisdom and compassion we all need for working through our most difficult emotions.” — Susan Cain, author of BITTERSWEET: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“The rise of stress, burnout and anxiety is one of the most urgent issues of our time. Big Feelings is a vital guide to not only handling complex emotions, but learning to thrive through difficult times — and emerge even more resilient.” — Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

"Lucid, wise, illustrated advice for when we are overwhelmed. Neither patronizing nor pedantic, just good sensible advice that helps you have more control over those mental avalanches." – Matt Haig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library and The Comfort Book

"Big Feelings is not another self-help book. It is an intelligent, empathetic, and often delightful guide to navigating life’s most difficult moments and emerging from them with a new found sense of meaning.” — Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and A Whole New Mind

“This book is witty, insightful, and filled with brilliant, signature cartoons about work, life and everything in between. Big Feelings is just the honest, funny and useful read we all need right now.” — Katy Milkman, bestselling author of How to Change

"Liz and Mollie have a compendious mastery on the Top 7 Really Hard Big Feelings (uncertainty, anyone??) but they've given us wisdom, research, and highly relatable anecdotes in bite-size nuggets that make the big feelings feel, well, a lot more medium-sized. This book is a timely gift as we collectively struggle with tendencies to despair, to compare ourselves, and overwork ourselves into burnout...but there are timeless applications to help us all become more self-compassionate humans. As always, Liz and Mollie have nudged us in the direction of becoming more informed, more empathetic, and more whole, so we can show up in the world with more bravery." — Mari Andrew, New York Times bestselling author of My Inner Sky and Am I There Yet?

"Combining compassion with their trademark visual wit, Liz and Mollie deliver a message we all need to hear in our current unsettled moment: feeling bad isn’t bad." — Cal Newport, bestselling author of A World without Email and Deep Work