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This web site will show you how to use your instincts and intuition to prevent illness and sustain lifelong health. Learn about emotional intelligence; emotional trauma -- the greatest impediment to emotional intelligence; relationship help and advice -- ridding early life emotional trauma with communication skills that reflect positive attachment; and alternatives to the use of psychiatric medications.

Dr. Segal is renowned in the field of emotional intelligence. Her books include Feeling Great: Enhancing Your Health & Well-Being (Unity, 1981), Living Beyond Fear: Coping with the Emotional Aspects of Life-Threatening Illness (Ballantine, 1989), and Raising Your Emotional Intelligence: A Practical Guide for Harnessing the Power of Your Instincts and Emotions, (Holt, 1997). In addition, she has coordinated the From Neurons To Neighborhoods Conferences in Los Angeles, which spread the word about the latest ways of coming to grips with and healing emotional trauma.

Read Dr. Segal's New E-Book:
Relationship Help:
Emotionally Intelligent Communication at home and work

As babies, many of us experienced unsuccessful, even traumatic, relationships in our first love encounters with a primary caretaker. In these instances, we may struggle not only to find, but also maintain a lasting and fulfilling adult love relationship.

Jeanne Segal, Ph.D., along with Jaelline Jaffe, Ph.D., has authored a free eBook that takes into account new brain discoveries regarding the traumatic impact of our first love relationship -- attachment -- as a means to healing through our adult relationships.

By applying the lessons about attachment found in this eBook, you will find and build that special relationship that mends the past.

Click here to enter the eBook on www.helpguide.org.

Table of Contents

1. Relationship Help - Emotional Intelligence in Communication

2. Managing Stress in Relationships - stay calm and focused to communicate well

3. Becoming a Stress-Buster Detective - find quick stress relief that work best for you 

4. Emotion Communicates - why successful relationships are emotionally intelligent

5. Raising your Emotional Intelligence - a process for using and enjoying all your emotions  

6. Nonverbal Communication - learning the Language of Emotionally Intelligent Communication

7. Playful Communication Skills - to strengthen interpersonal relationships

8. Conflict Resolution Skills - communication for Keeping a Relationship Healthy

Appendices

A. The Attachment Bond - Our first relationship that shapes future relationships

B. The Social Emotionally Intelligent Brain - New brain research into the social make up of the brain.