Emotional Intimacy: A Comprehensive Guide for Connecting with the Power of Your Emotions

This should be taught in schools to everyone. Excellent format and highly actionable. I'm devastated that it took me so long to come to these lessons. Save you and your loved ones pain and deepen your humanity. I got the audio book, then the physical book for reference. Transformational

I devour books, but my husband does not. I can never manage to convince him to read any of the books I love, so I've stopped trying. As I read this guide, I found the information to be incredibly applicable to my own life (and saw ways in which my family could likely benefit by making a few small changes). This book was written in such a way that I was able to summarize its advice to my husband, and, honestly, within quite a short time, we have noticed changes in the general atmosphere of our home. No, it didn't get my husband to start reading books...I don't think there's a book that will ever do that. But it did get me to understand that nagging him isn't going to make him start reading the books I wish he'd read, and that it's more important for me to try to understand his perspective than to try to force mine onto him. Amazingly, he and I have been getting along much better, and I know our three-year-old daughter has picked up on the decreased tension in the household, because she seems much more relaxed. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about him or herself or about emotional intelligence, or who gets into frequent arguments/has relationship issues. It provides an excellent outlook and interesting information on human emotions, surprisingly simple suggestions on how to learn more about oneself, emotionally and how to connect with others (and not cheesy or too touchy-feely, either... neither my husband nor I was raised in an emotionally open family, and this book did not offer suggestions that were too far fetched for us to attempt).

Such a great book, one that is worth a re-read.

This book allowed taught me the emotional vocabulary necessary to label feelings within my body, so I could actually “work” on them with a therapist.

I like some of the information about human emotions. This is quite a scholarly book and seems more like a dissertation than a book to enjoy reading. Helpful in many ways, though, especially when it comes to jealousy.

A clear, concise and helpful way to understand how to work with various emotions so that you are able to integrate them in a healthy way into your life. Written by an author who has another book on Spiritual Bypass, this book helps you understand that only by understanding why various emotional states are there and working through them instead of denying them can you live a truly happy life.

fast shipping. Has a lot of good info but the author uses a lot of unnecessary big word that make the reading difficult. It is not the easiest read.

Others have stated what needs to be said about this gem much better than I can. It's very engaging and an excellent work you can turn back to and work with for many years for sustained development/intimacy with your emotions.

This book is amazing for anyone who needs to get closer to their emotions in a slow and steady manner it’s helped me mature and understand my emotions a lot better still working but I have learned so much about me thanks to this book

This wasn't available Iin Australia, so had to purchase he kindle version. It's a work in progress... in every aspect ...

The book is amazing. It explains about the primal emotions, what is a healthy and are distorted expressions of it, and exercises to familiarize and move through them. Just so well written. I wish I wasn’t in my fourties’ - this should be a high school must read.

Happiness is our natural state when we are no longer at war with ourselves, are no longer striving to keep our suffering in shadows, and are actively cultivating intimacy with all that we are.- chapter Joy ( The Unbound Feeling of Being) And how would one create intimacy without fully being aware of the emotions inside. The emotions allow us to connect deeper and live a fulfilling life. This book will help you do that. It's a work of art. When I was reading about grief, guilt, joy... It felt like I was immersed in a work of art. Quoting from the book- The expression on face which can identify disgust- Crinkling of the nose and lifting of the upper lip. Haughtiness is little more than dressed up disgust, reinforced with a shot of pride..... The classic stiff upper lip....

Wunderbares Buch für alle, die den Zugang zu ihren Gefühlen verloren haben oder ihn unterdrückt haben, um irgendwie reinzupassen in eine Gesellschaft, die emotional zunehmen verarmt. Die Übungen sollte man natürlich machen.