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EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM: How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships
By Sandy Gerber
- Posted by Jennifer Weatherly
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Sandy Gerber’s EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM is a treatise on effective and empathetic communication, giving readers a new language to describe their emotional needs and values.
It’s well known that one of the most common reasons for relationship problems is lack of communication. Sometimes, though, that seeming “lack” arises when two people are trying their best to communicate, but talking past one another. This only serves to make them more defensive, because they don’t feel heard, seen, or validated. Communication expert Sandy Gerber gets this. In her self-help treatise EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM (How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships), she takes the time to dig into how and why this happens. Then she takes it a step further, and explains why the best path to effective communication is to appeal to someone’s needs and values. This is not only to head off needless conflicts at the pass, of course: it’s also to build a sense of intimacy and empathy within a relationship.
While it certainly falls into the self-help camp, it’s clear that EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM wants to be more than a self-help book. In many ways, it accomplishes this goal. It comes across as more of a self-acceptance book, one that gives readers a language to decode their own needs and values – the better to both describe them to and see them in others. Gerber breaks these needs into four categories, which she calls “emotional magnets”: experience, value, safety, and achievement. Simplistic as this breakdown may seem, readers are likely not only to see themselves in one or more of these magnets, but also to find their loved ones’ tendencies. Of course, for those who struggle to parse their own emotional magnets, or just want to have some fun with the concept, Gerber has developed a quiz (available on her website) that’s several steps beyond personality test clickbait, and whose results are actually quite thought-provoking. Gerber also does an excellent job weaving in anecdotes that illustrate how to use these magnets to change one’s communication habits. Some of these anecdotes, of course, feel a bit exaggerated, and there is a little more repetition than is needed when it comes to getting the message across. That said, EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM is truly unique in that, as noted, it encourages readers to know themselves instead of change themselves. Gerber makes sure to validate all of the emotional magnets throughout the book, and to speak to how people with seemingly competing values can actually use their differences to help each other feel more fulfilled. Beyond that, as Gerber puts it, it’s all about “loving [people] in a way they can understand.”
Fresh, thought-provoking, and engaging, EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM by Sandy Gerber is an excellent self-help book that encourages readers to accept themselves and use that acceptance to connect with others.
~Jennifer Weatherly for IndieReader
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Publication Date:
05/10/2022
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ISBN:
978-1-77458-199-5
Binding:
Paperback
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- Posted by Jennifer Weatherly
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EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM (How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships) by Sandy Gerber provides insight, reflection and even a quiz to help the reader find their ‘emotional magnet’. A fun and enjoyable read for the person who seeks to communicate better.
EMOTIONAL MAGNETISM: How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships
Sandy Gerber
978-1-77458-199-5
Rated 4.8 / 5 based on 1 review.