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

“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.