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The Emotionally Unavailable Man is two books in one — one side is for the emotionally unavailable man and the other is for his partner. It details why men become emotionally unavailable and specifies the actions that can be taken by both men and women to realize improvement. MEN, do you ever feel like a little boy in a grown-up body? Like you have no personal power? Flip to the men’s side of this book and let expert psychotherapist Patti Henry help you

• Get your "power"
• Stop avoiding difficult situations
• Calm your partner’s anger
• Learn how to say "No"
• Set and maintain appropriate boundaries
• Be more effective at work
• Increase and enhance the sex in your relationship
• Feel personal freedom and happiness

WOMEN, do you want your husband to be emotionally available to you? Flip to the women’s side of this book and let expert marriage counselor Patti Henry help you

• Determine if your partner is capable of being emotionally available
• Decide what you can — and cannot — do to help
• Discover how to lose your anger
• Exercise mutuality and safety
• Learn how to recognize and confront your own resistances
• Restore hope about long-term change
• Gain clarity about your future

Author: Patti Henry
Paperback:  264 pages
Company: Rainbow Books, Inc.  (2004-09)
ISBN: 1568250967
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The Workbook which will accompany the revised second edition of The Practice of Emotionally Focused Marital Therapy,is designed to facilitate the learning and implementation of EFT by providing explicit exercises that can be utilized by students as well as clinicians looking to increase their treatment efficacy. The inclusion of therapy session transcripts, multiple choices questions and an EFT Supervision model make this an especially attractive text for couples therapy coursework.

Author: Susan Johnson, Brent Bradley, Jim Furrow, Alison Lee, Gail Palmer, Doug Tiley, Scott Woolley
Paperback:  416 pages
Company: Brunner-Routledge  (2005-09-07)
ISBN: 0415947472
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It is impossible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. That premise, unpacked for church leaders in Peter Scazzero’s award-winning book The Emotionally Healthy Church, is translated into practical application for everyone in this stand-alone workbook. Eight sessions help individuals, small groups, and churches put principles of emotional transformation into step-by-step practical application.

Author: Peter Scazzero
Paperback:  96 pages
Company: Zondervan  (2007-01-01)
ISBN: 0310275997
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The eight-week study of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality will take you beyond merely reading about emotional health and contemplative spirituality to introducing you to a life with ... (more...)

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When you're upset or depressed, should you analyze your feelings to figure out what's wrong? Or should you just forget about it and move on? (more...)

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Step back to move forward emotionally, study suggests ... Sept. 23, 2008. Step back to move forward emotionally, study suggests Listen to podcast (more...)

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Christianbook.com (CBD): Life Principles Study Guide: Becoming Emotionally Whole. * Our heartfelt passions are a gift from God meant to be shared---not feared. In this helpful ... (more...)

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Study: Forward-Facing Strollers May Harm Babies Emotionally, Pushing babies in forward-facing strollers may harm them emotionally due to the lack of face-to-face contact with the ... (more...)

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The secret to a long life is actually pretty simple, according to recent research from the National Institute on Aging. After tracking more than 2,300 people for more than 50 years ... (more...)

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Emotionally}Vague: A research project about emotion, sensation and feeling. (more...)

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In discussion of Step 12 in the Twelve and Twelve, the text talks on page 123 of a medical study that found AAs were in general ". . . childish, emotionally... edgarc@... (more...)

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... differences among happy, sad and neutral individuals, people who were feeling emotionally ambivalent performed significantly better on this creativity task. For the second study ... (more...)

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Hi, so i've been talking to this guy for about a month and things were going fairly well...he had asked me to a party at his house where some of his family were there and I met them (brothers and cousins, no parents) and he asked me to go with him on new years eve (although he waited until 2 days prior to ask me), and I've met all his friends. He's called regularly and I felt cool with it all up until I spent a couple days at his house and realized he has never complimented me or said anything to me to show me he's really interested. When he asks me out he never has a solid plan in mind he'll just be like "so want to hang out?" which is a turn-off for me. Also, he asked me out this weekend for Friday and I mentioned Sat. as being better and he told me he was studying...kind of questionable...I know. I'm just confused because SOME of his actions would indicate interest yet I haven't seen it emotionally yet and also some things are looking sketchy. Does it sound to you like a dead end as it does to me? Thanks! sorry so long (more...)

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I don't have emotional intimacy in my life and it doesn't really bother me. I don't really allow my parents to hug me or kiss me. Sometimes I allow my mother to hug me, but rarely. (When I was younger, we were somewhat affectionate toward each other). Now, I rarely show affection towards her. I rarely say I love you to my parents. I never kiss or hug my father, and my brother I hug occasionally. I'm 21 and never been in a relationship. I've kissed a guy when I was 14 and found it absolutely nasty. I now have a really good guy friend, but find the thought of making out with him or kissing him disgusting. I have no desire to have sex and no desire to be in a relationship. I have no sexual abuse or trauma in my past. I don't really have that many friends at all. One close one... so maybe I'm just a loner. I can't say I'm happy with my life. I'm in college and have just concentrate on studying. I don't go to parties or clubs. My mom drilled it into me from an early age that basically all that matters is me getting a good career. I've thought about the fact that I might be gay, and while I do find some women extremely attractive, I wouldn't want to have sex with them. (more...)

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I don't have emotional intimacy in my life and it doesn't really bother me. I don't really allow my parents to hug me or kiss me. Sometimes I allow my mother to hug me, but rarely. (When I was younger, we were somewhat affectionate toward each other). Now, I rarely show affection towards her. I rarely say I love you to my parents. I never kiss or hug my father, and my brother I hug occasionally. I'm 21 and never been in a relationship. I've kissed a guy when I was 14 and found it absolutely nasty. I now have a really good guy friend, but find the thought of making out with him or kissing him disgusting. I have no desire to have sex and no desire to be in a relationship. I have no sexual abuse or trauma in my past. I don't really have that many friends at all. One close one... so maybe I'm just a loner. I can't say I'm happy with my life. I'm in college and have just concentrate on studying. I don't go to parties or clubs. My mom drilled it into me from an early age that basically all that matters is me getting a good career. I've thought about the fact that I might be gay, and while I do find some women extremely attractive, I wouldn't want to have sex with them. (more...)

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What are horse related jobs? More than the common: vet, farrier, teeth, groom, trainer, and instructor? I'm currently in 10th grade, and I know I want to do something with horses. But I don't think I'll be able to (emotionally) be a vet, and I want to find out as many careers as possible. Also, what colleges have the best options for the equine careers. And how long does each job require? One last question; What classes are the best to take? Science & Math wise, I don't have much option on English & Social Studies, but science and math have tons of options. Thanks so much! Oh. And what might be some common pyshical requirements, or pyshical plus? Like, it is good to be bigger and stronger when your a farrier or teeth person.. (more...)

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Ok, so a couple summers ago, my sister came back from this Christian camp, and she told me about how when she was there, they were doing this worship service thing, and then all of a sudden my sister's arm started raising up into the air even though she wasn't trying to, and when she tried to stop it her arm would shake uncontrollably, and then my sister started to speak in tongues, which means she started to speak another language that she had never studied before. All the people around her started getting really happy I guess, and they were all surrounding her, laying their hands on her head and praying for her. And when my sister told me all that, I didn't believe her. But then my sister told my she could still speak it, and I could hear it if I wanted, and then she just closed her eyes, and started talking really emotionally in this beautiful language that sounded Arabic or like...Hebrew or something from that area of the world, and she kept saying Abba over and over and it was with this really prety accent. And her arm was doing the raising thing also. I saw her speak in tounges, I KNOW it is real. It was a really cool experience...I just want to know if anyone has had a similar one. Or just what you think about speaking in tongues. And please don't go on about how my sister was faking, or I am making the whole thing up. Not that this will change your opinion if you already think it, but I just want you to know I'm not lying about ANY of what I just said. And I am positive my sister wasn't either. It's not something she could fake. Not something she WOULD try to fake, either. (more...)

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I've been having a dilemma within myself. Well some background information I was looking to get back with my ex, we had some problems before but we were looking into the idea of trying to start our relationship again. It was a double headed sword, one day we were the perfect couple the next day he'd have an emotional break down and take it out on me. Even though we had our problems which I think steamed a majority from his own insecurities and depression, I loved him. Through thick and thin, I stood by him and thought I was going to marry this man and have children with him. Things ended abrupt as he took out his insecurities on me once again for the last time and abused my privacy and I knew things had to end. Meanwhile, months before things ended with my ex I met a wonderful man. I didn't think much about him and I kept him at a steady distance as a good friend and for a while he was that. It just worked out that things fell through with my ex and things begun to escalate with this new man in my life. This man who is level headed, emotionally stable, intelligent, beautiful, responsible, a perfect gentleman. He is everything that parents wish for their daughters to marry. Of course, I can't help but harbor emotions for my ex, but as of the last emotional break down that he had it just kind of sealed the deal that I couldn't be with him. The first break up I had with him was horrible, it took me months to stop crying and to move forward in my life, as for the second round, it hurt but I didn't cry, I knew I had to break ties with him because it was such a corrosive relationship to be in, it was unhealthy and I knew I didn't deserve an emotional roller coaster of emotions. I grew cold, heartless and I shut down that part of me that loved him, denying everything because it just can't be. I channeled all of my energy into my studies and focused on moving forward with my life, I felt relieved that I could breathe and not be walking on egg shells all day. I felt empowered that I had control over my emotions for him. Meanwhile, this new man was slowly working himself in my life, first we'd meet up at a mutual place to drink and dance, then it begun where he started to pick me up at my house, to where our friendship has escalated into us dating. No where was it my intentions to meet someone, let alone start up a relationship from an ending one. I just think it's unhealthy and I feel weird. I usually fall fast for someone and hold my emotions back. With this man I adore him but I can't say I love him, maybe in time I'll love him, maybe I'm more cautious than I was before. This man is everything that I deserve, everything that I should want, I'm attracted to him, emotionally, intellectually, physically and yet I feel that I'm wasting his time or that I'm just using him for companionship. I'm so confused, I really like him, I adore him and I miss him tremendously when he's gone but I feel that I'm not giving all that I am to him. I just feel as if part of myself has shut down, shut down from being emotionally numb. I'm just feel really confused about my placement in all this. I guess I'm asking for anyone that could possible relate and help me be more self-reflective as an outside opinion on this matter. Thanks. (more...)

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Is it the Summer Holiday after your GCSEs/Year 11/End of Secondary School, or the Summer that comes after your College/A-level studies - which is more emotionally, mentally and spiritually uplifting and relaxing to you? And why? (more...)

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My holidays were going alright until my dad got arrested. My dad has a long history of hating my mom's side of the family because he feels that they came to Canada because of him and that they have become so successful. I personally think is jealously because all my uncles and aunts decided to do something with there lives when they immigrated here and started small and worked there way up while my dad had no plan for he future. This is just a sum up of why my dad hates my mom's side of the family. He releases all the anger and jealousy on my mom. My sister (18) and me (16) are grown up and we can't handle this. We have to focus on school and our studies and make sure that we don't end up on the same path as our father. Ever since we were small, my dad has been abusing my mom. Verbally, physically and emotionally. Even then my mom never left my dad because she wanted a father for me and my sister. Through out our lives, our dad just got more abusive towards my mom and sometimes it would go so far that we would have to call he cops and get him arrested. Even then my mom still took him into our homes because of my sister and I. My father never does his share of the work around the house. He got fired from his original job because he was also verbally abusing a co-worker. Now he works at a bakery, barley making enough each month. He's always complaining that my mom got him fired. My sister and I are grown teenagers, he should think about our future like my mom has since we were born. So this holiday, after my dad came back from work, he started abusing my mom again and that's where my sister and I stepped in. From there is just got worse. He started hitting me and my sister, would you, at a age of 50+ start abusing you own children? From there, he started threaten us with a knife. I wanted to go against him so bad, but my mom didn't let me. Instead she took me and my sister to our neighbours house. He ran after us and damaged our neighbours front door. That's when our neighbour got scared and called the cops. The cops came and arrested my dad. Now I don't have my dad in the house again. My mom got laid off from work because of the economic recession. She worked for a car company in a factory for 8 years. We are in a real financial crisis because my dad is going to stop paying the insurance bills for the house and car and he is also going to stop paying the mortgage. We really don't know what we are going to do. My mom would usually find a way to support the family, but with her job gone, we don't know what we are going to do. Please help. I feel like committing suicide. (more...)

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I THINK I'm little hung over my ex boyfriend, I guess since he was my first serious boyfriend (first kiss, first date and all that) he moved to another country, and I'm really happy that he's getting a better education and all that. Our relationship was mostly physical (making out, kissing) and I was more emotionally connected to my best boy bud and I was going to break up with my boyfriend because being with my boy bud felt righter, but he said not to because it'll break his heart. I haven't had another boyfriend ever since my ex moved, as for my boy bud, he doesn't want another girlfriend since he wants to focus on studies,friends (since his friends are seniors and they're graduating soon) and his mom (he hasn't seen his mom in 6 years) Am I missing my ex? Or HAVING a boyfriend? We broke up A YEAR AGO I just remembered him cause of a dream I had, and my old friend asked me "hey! how's *****?" and I told her we broke up. I'm 15, and I was with my boyfriend when I was 14. And we were together for 9 months (more...)

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I THINK I'm little hung over my ex boyfriend, I guess since he was my first serious boyfriend (first kiss, first date and all that) he moved to another country, and I'm really happy that he's getting a better education and all that. Our relationship was mostly physical (making out, kissing) and I was more emotionally connected to my best boy bud and I was going to break up with my boyfriend because being with my boy bud felt righter, but he said not to because it'll break his heart. I haven't had another boyfriend ever since my ex moved, as for my boy bud, he doesn't want another girlfriend since he wants to focus on studies,friends (since his friends are seniors and they're graduating soon) and his mom (he hasn't seen his mom in 6 years) Am I missing my ex? Or HAVING a boyfriend? We broke up A YEAR AGO I just remembered him cause of a dream I had, and my old friend asked me "hey! how's *****?" and I told her we broke up. I'm 15, and I was with my boyfriend when I was 14. And we were together for 9 months (more...)

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