Emotional Literacy fosters emotional health by teaching us "to put our heads back in our hearts, where they have always belonged." To be emotionally literate is to be able to feel and understand not only the full range of emotions, but the emotions appropriate to the actual situations in which we find ourselves moment by moment. Anger, fear, forgiveness, and love--all take on mew meaning when we are emotionally literate. By cultivating "a well read heart" we experience healing and come to know what is at the heart of all emotions--and that is joy This is a reprint of a book first published...

Who, if completely honest about it, can deny that there is something in one's own life to fit the description of addiction? For most of us, if not all, there is something to which we relate as though we cannot do without it. Instead of comparing our lives negatively with those of famous addicts, real or fictional, attentive to all the ways we are not like 'them, ' we need to develop an eye for the ways in which we are all too like them. We need to let the light of their experiences illuminate our own lives, permitting us to see the addiction present in ourselves. This is an exact reprint of...