ABOUT THE BOOK

We all deserve to feel better. When you do, you can show up—as a professional, parent and partner—the way you have always wanted. But how do you get there, and why is the simple act of “feeling better” so hard to sustain? Could the answers lay within our ability (or inability) to process our emotions?

In Feel Better, Dr. Shahana Alibai—professional speaker, family physician and mental health expert, and mom to three—offers a fresh perspective, full of actionable insights, on how we can process our emotions in healthier, more productive ways. She provides a step-by-step strategy to understanding the three clues your emotions tell you every single day. What if your emotions weren’t there to trip you up but to actually teach you something? Imagine knowing that the emotions you feel could actually play a role in understanding what you value. Imagine being able to tune into the story in your head and understand that the story you are telling yourself is more than that, it is the story you sell yourself every single day. 

Dr. Shahana Alibai’s approach will help you expand your emotional capacity to: 

• Maximize Joy
• Understand Your Emotional “Bed”
• Acknowledge Your Strengths
• Create Inner Awareness
• Foster Relationships
• Improve Productivity & Satisfaction

As a physician, Dr. Shahana often sees the larger picture behind a patient’s complaint, whether it be anxiety, depression, insomnia or just chronic stress. What if every single pixel in this picture was the patient’s emotional health—the tens of hundreds of thousands of opportunities this patient has had to understand, accept and regulate their emotions? Could understanding our emotional health be a gateway into not only bettering our mental and physical condition but a possible tool to help mitigate the mental health crisis we are facing? Dr. Shahana thinks so. 

Written in a relatable, practical and approachable style, with anecdotes from patients and Dr. Shahana’s own humorous life stories, Feel Better will give you the tools you need to gain clarity and control of your emotions so you can live the life you deserve. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Shahana Alibhai is a professional speaker, family physician and mental health expert. She has worked with a multitude of organizations to help their audiences gain more clarity into their mental health. As a lead physician at one of British Columbia’s largest youth health centers, much of her career is focused on those struggling with their mental health. Her insights are highly sought after and she’s been featured in major media. 

A master at blending her personal story of postpartum anxiety and the resulting shame, denial and mental health challenges with her professional background in cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness meditation, Dr. Shahana is best known for her TEDx talk “Emotional Literacy for Better Mental Health.” She is part of the 262 Women’s Movement and the winner of the Canadian College of Family Practice Residency Award.

TALKING POINTS

• The connection between emotional health and mental health
• Understanding the clues your emotions tell you every single day
• The importance of self-acknowledgement on the path to better emotional wellbeing
• How to be a less emotionally reactive person, but more responsive instead
• The two biggest cognitive biases we fall into (fundamental attribution error and confirmation bias)
• What common traits Dr. Shahana saw in her patients that led to the development of the “Feel Better” process
• How a lack of awareness on emotional health has detrimentally impacted medical treatment globally