Whether you are a parent wanting to be a better mother or father and improve your parenting style or you are coach or therapist working with adult clients desiring to empower your clients with their emotional heritage and increase their Emotional Intelligence and be a person with great self mastery a la The Fifth Discipline, then this is a sweet and short book to help guide you succeed!
This booklet is a tremendous easy access resource from THE Relationship Expert penultimate, John Gottman, PhD.
Many adults were not raised by parents with an “Emotional Coaching” parenting style. This is not to blame our parents at this late age.
Rather instead, What Am I Feeling? empowers and equips adults to fulfill their own lives now to give them their emotional validation and identification which an ideal parent from 20+ years ago just didn’t have. It’s never too late to improve and equip yourself more fully as long as you still draw breath.
This is a marvelous tool to add to your Life Mastery toolkit, whatever your age!
Think of What Am I Feeling? as a really lovely illustrated short pamphlet which anyone can read at any time, complete with very practical “Real Life” applications with children. This is a very digestible book, not a massive tome. So, it works well in any therapists’ Waiting Room or family therapist’s Resource Shelf when working with children and families, as well as for anyone in a related family-helping profession such as a rabbi, pastor, or priest.
What Am I Feeling? is a quick tips reference manual to start to help you apply and distill the strategies and tips from the much lengthier John Gottman book, Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting.
Part of what I so adored and appreciated about Gottman’s book and the photographic illustrations from the marvelous Talaris Research Institute is how they just very sweetly without much fanfare managed to illustrate this quick guide with photographs of multiple races and ethnicities to empower and equip us all.
Emotions span the barriers. And Gottman clearly desires to help us either as a parent or an adult. It’s never too late to discover and empower yourself with identifying, What Am I Feeling?
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
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