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What is Emotional Intelligence?

Emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions. - Steve Hein (more here)

What is Emotional Abuse?

Abuse is any behavior that is designed to control and subjugate another human being through the use of fear, humiliation, intimidation, guilt, coercion, manipulation etc. Emotional abuse is any kind of abuse that is emotional rather than physical in nature. It can include anything from verbal abuse and constant criticism to more subtle tactics, such as repeated disapproval or even the refusal to ever be pleased. (more here)

Index of topics

Abuse | Anger | Caring | Caring vs. Control | Common "Negative" or Painful Feelings | Conflict Resolution

Cutting, Self Harm | Depression | Education (Alternative education reading list) | Emotional Abuse

Emotionally Abusive Mothers | Emotional Intelligence | Journal | Emotional Literacy | Emotional Needs | Emotional Support | Emotionally Intelligent Alternative Society | Empathy | Feeling Words | Free PDFs From EQI | Hein Painful Emotions Technique | Hugs | Invalidation | Letters from the Unloved Book | Library & Bookstore | Listening | Love

Mail from Readers | Needs vs. Rights | Pain | Parenting | Personal Growth | Punishment | Respect | Romance

Steve's Personal Stories from Around the World | Teen Suicide | Understanding

Here is a more complete list of topics

Updates

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