Mollie West Duffy Books
Mollie West Duffy is an organizational development expert who has worked with companies on innovation and culture change.
Known for: Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
Books by Mollie West Duffy
Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay is a practical, deeply reassuring guide to navigating the emotions that can derail daily life: uncertainty, comparison, burnout, perfectionism, de...
No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work
A practical guide that explores how emotions influence our professional lives and how embracing them can improve communication, collaboration, and well-being at work. The authors combine behavioral sc...
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Big emotions are signals, not failures
A difficult emotion often feels like proof that something is wrong with you, when it is more often evidence that something meaningful is happening. One of the book’s most liberating ideas is that so-called “big feelings” are not character defects to eliminate. They are signals: information from the ...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
The story you tell shapes suffering
Two people can live through the same event and emerge with very different emotional outcomes because meaning matters as much as circumstance. The book emphasizes that while we cannot control every experience, we do influence the stories we build around those experiences. A setback can become evidenc...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Uncertainty becomes easier when made concrete
Vague fear expands in the absence of clarity. One reason uncertainty is so emotionally exhausting is that the mind hates unfinished information. When outcomes are unknown, we instinctively imagine worst-case scenarios, treating ambiguity as danger. Big Feelings shows that uncertainty itself is often...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Comparison hides the full reality of others
Comparison is painful not because other people succeed, but because we compare our inner complexity to their curated surface. One of the book’s sharpest insights is that envy often emerges from incomplete information. We see someone else’s accomplishment, confidence, relationship, or lifestyle, but ...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Perfectionism is fear in productive clothing
Perfectionism often disguises itself as high standards, but beneath the polished exterior is usually fear: fear of judgment, failure, rejection, or not being enough. Big Feelings explains that perfectionism can look admirable from the outside because it is socially rewarded. The perfectionist is res...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
Burnout needs boundaries, not just rest
Burnout is not simply being tired; it is the deep depletion that comes from sustained stress without adequate recovery, control, meaning, or support. The book pushes back against the idea that burnout can be solved with a weekend off, a bath, or better morning routines. Those may help temporarily, b...
From Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay
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Mollie West Duffy is an organizational development expert who has worked with companies on innovation and culture change.
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