Mastering Your Emotions

With Your Spouse and Others:

Seven Steps for Transforming Emotional Reactivity

By

Jim Piekarski

Mastering Your Emotions with Your Spouse and Others:

Seven Steps for Transforming Emotional Reactivity

By

Jim Piekarski, Marriage and Family Therapist

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2012 Jim Piekarski

This book is available in print at most online retailers.

Contact Jim Piekarski, the author, at jim.piekarski@aol.com.

Cover design by Jerry Dorris

Acknowledgements

It takes many people to write a book. I would like to thank Cynthia TenEyck, Kay Lee, and Alicia Mitchell for their detailed editing of the manuscript. Alan Bleiman, Marcia Wall, Sarah Avery, Alicia Mitchell and Cecilia Kolonie are all therapists to whom I am grateful for reading the manuscript and giving me excellent feedback about its psychological content. I would also like to thank my significant other, Dr. Karen Hylen, and Tim Butler, MFT for their own long-time enthusiasm for these ideas and for our discussions over the years about emotional reactivity.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 What is Emotional Reactivity