In "Why Do I Feel This Way?" What Your Feelings Are Trying To Tell You, Dina Wilcox uses her own stories of learning to live with her feelings and emotions after her husband died of AIDS to share with other non-scientists the science of feelings, emotions and memories. In straightforward, plain language, each chapter contains a different story as the context for an unscientific experiment Wilcox conducted as she set about to understand how she could think her way through to moving forward with a life she could love again. Her premise is that non-scientists need to know how we can use our feelings and emotions, as well as such responses to life as fear, happiness, love, empathy, intuition and memories, which have evolved in our brains to help us live our lives deliberately and not as victims of our circumstances.