BEFRIENDING YOUR EMOTIONS

"Befriending your Emotions, by Janina Gomes brings out very concretely the multifaceted nature of a variety of emotions that most of us experience. Women in our culture have a great facility in experiencing and expressing their feelings. In this they demonstrate an emotional intelligence superior to that of men. Men on the other hand are hamstrung by the fact that our society often expects them to be macho rather than sentimental and emotional."Big boys don't cry" and "Don't be a sissy" give an unhealthy messages to men that they are better off disowning their sadness, jealousy, hurt and pain. This is why men in particular way do well to read this book and begin a process of moving from emotional illiteracy to emotional intelligence. women can go to this book to feel and be affirmed in their right to experience the variety to their own emotions".  

"I have been amazed at the skillful way in which Janina has taken us on a tour of the musuem of our own emotions. She has interspersed her writing with her personal experiences, which make each emotion come alive for us. My hope is that those of us who read this book may learn to function not only from the head but also from the heart and become whole persons in the process".

Taken from the foreward by Vincent S Pereira.