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

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars | 319 ratings

Price: 15.3

Last update: 10-21-2024


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“In Emotional Intimacy, Robert Masters offers a primer on emotions - from the most primary to the most subtle. Whether you are currently in a relationship or wish to be in one, this is a very worthwhile book to pick up and select a chapter from which to taste, digest, transform, and heal. As a couples’ therapist, I will definitely recommend this book to my clients.” (Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT, author of Wired for Love)

Emotions link our feelings, thoughts, and conditioning at multiple levels - and yet they may remain a largely untapped source of strength, freedom, and connection. The capacity to be intimate with all our emotions, teaches Robert Augustus Masters, is essential for creating fulfilling relationships and living with awareness, love, and integrity. With Emotional Intimacy, this respected therapist and author invites us to explore:

  • How to deepen our emotional literacy and become intimate with all our emotions
  • The nature of emotional disconnection and what to do about it
  • How to identify our emotions, fully experience them, and skillfully express them
  • Illuminating, resolving, and healing old emotional wounds
  • Gender differences in emotional intimacy and expression
  • Steps for bringing greater emotional intimacy and depth into our relationships
  • In-depth guidance for those facing depression, anxiety, and shame
  • Why “blowing off steam” may make us feel worse, and the nature of healthy catharsis
  • The difference between anger and aggression, shame and guilt, jealousy and envy
  • Individual chapters for fully engaging with fear, anger, joy, jealousy, shame, grief, guilt, awe, and the full spectrum of our emotions

There are no negative or unwholesome emotions - only negative or harmful things we do with them. Through real-life examples, exercises, and an abundance of key insights, Masters provides a lucid guide for reclaiming our emotions, relating to them skillfully, and turning them into allies - to enrich and deepen our lives.


Top reviews from the United States

KLeigh0916
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazingly helpful yet surprisingly simple
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2013
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).
Karen W. Byrd
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Book
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
I have learned more about intimacy from this book than I've learned from all previous books combined.
Bodhidharma
5.0 out of 5 stars Clear, useful, practical, invaluable
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020
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.
Cecile
4.0 out of 5 stars So far so good
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020
I just started reading this book. Seems like it will be a good read!
Brandon
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2020
What a book. Not to be read quickly, and surely a book I’ll be referencing for possibly the rest of my life. Emotional work is grounding. Masters is brilliant.
Dr Lisa Love
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book on Handling Emotions Well
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015
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.
Carl
3.0 out of 5 stars Emotional Intimacy Book
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2023
Glad to have for a good read driver barely put item on front porch could have got rained on or stolen wish it would have been closer to my door
Mary C
5.0 out of 5 stars Understanding Emotions
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2017
Excellent! In my experience, many people are not in touch with their emotions or the emotions of others. They may supress them or be numb to them. Their vocabulary, when speaking about emotions, is often impoverished or narrow. Dr. Masters provides the text to broaden our understanding in a very down-to-earth way.

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