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Little Fergen's Fish Feelings by Charles M. Iker

Moos, Mud, Mayhem! by Deborah C. Aalbers

Gentle Books That Help Children Understand Their Emotions

3 books — 3 voters

Books That Explore the True Meaning of Trust in Relationships

2 books — 2 voters

Books that Help you Understand and Manage Emotions

1 book — 1 voter

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

Dr Daniel Siegel Collection 3 Books Set by Dr Daniel Siegel

Best Books to Help Kids Feel Seen and Heard

26 books — 8 voters

The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky

Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb Tsipursky

Never Go with Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky

7 Pillars of Mental Fitness by Aram Cargill

Developmental Psychology

82 books — 54 voters

Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe by Karl Wiggins

What You Don't Know About Listening (Could Fill a Book) by Jon F. White

Emotional Intelligence by Samira a El-Sayed Mansour

Thriving in a Culturally-challenged World

22 books — 11 voters

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Quotes Tagged “Emotional Intelligence”

“ Whether we are speaking of a flower or an oak tree, of an earthworm or a beautiful bird, of an ape or a person, we will do well, I believe, to recognize that life is an active process, not a passive one. Whether the stimulus arises from within or without, whether the environment is favorable or unfavorable, the behaviors of an organism can be counted on to be in the direction of maintaining, enhancing, and reproducing itself. This is the very nature of the process we call life. This tendency is Whether we are speaking of a flower or an oak tree, of an earthworm or a beautiful bird, of an ape or a person, we will do well, I believe, to recognize that life is an active process, not a passive one. Whether the stimulus arises from within or without, whether the environment is favorable or unfavorable, the behaviors of an organism can be counted on to be in the direction of maintaining, enhancing, and reproducing itself. This is the very nature of the process we call life. This tendency is operative at all times. Indeed, only the presence or absence of this total directional process enables us to tell whether a given organism is alive or dead. The actualizing tendency can, of course, be thwarted or warped, but it cannot be destroyed without destroying the organism. I remember that in my boyhood, the bin in which we stored our winter's supply of potatoes was in the basement, several feet below a small window. The conditions were unfavorable, but the potatoes would begin to sprout—pale white sprouts, so unlike the healthy green shoots they sent up when planted in the soil in the spring. But these sad, spindly sprouts would grow 2 or 3 feet in length as they reached toward the distant light of the window. The sprouts were, in their bizarre, futile growth, a sort of desperate expression of the directional tendency I have been describing. They would never become plants, never mature, never fulfill their real potential. But under the most adverse circumstances, they were striving to become. Life would not give up, even if it could not flourish. In dealing with clients whose lives have been terribly warped, in working with men and women on the back wards of state hospitals, I often think of those potato sprouts. So unfavorable have been the conditions in which these people have developed that their lives often seem abnormal, twisted, scarcely human. Yet, the directional tendency in them can be trusted. The clue to understanding their behavior is that they are striving, in the only ways that they perceive as available to them, to move toward growth, toward becoming. To healthy persons, the results may seem bizarre and futile, but they are life's desperate attempt to become itself. This potent constructive tendency is an underlying basis of the person-centered approach. ...more ”
― Carl R. Rogers

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“ If parents don’t label their own behavior as abusive, their child won’t label it that way either. Even as adults, many people have no idea that what happened to them in childhood was abusive. As a result, they may not recognize abusive behavior in their adult relationships. ”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

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