Exploring Intimacy: Cultivating Healthy Relationships through Insight and Intuition

by Suzann Panek Robins

Overview

Building off the idea that when we are happier, we tend to be healthier, Robins explains the phenomenon of how our intuitive knowing fosters healthy relationships that contribute to our physical, mental, and emotional health. Readers learn to utilize a variety of pathways that will change their responses to others and will produce lasting, more rewarding, and closer relationships in all areas of their lives. This book is designed to aid readers in looking inward and experiencing how their intuitive sixth sense informs their ability to be intimate without the negative triggers of past experiences. Through a considered and thoughtful approach, Robins offers insight into cultivating a truly integrated self so that one may lead a more fulfilling and healthful life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442200906
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/16/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Suzann Panek Robins is a counselor specializing in personal growth and relationships, anger management, hypnotherapy, emotions, and related areas. She is an instructor at the University of Northern Colorado and was previously assistant professor at Hesser College and instructor at various other colleges. She has presented her work at seminars, symposiums, and personal growth retreats. She leads communication workshops on spirituality and sexuality and has published a variety of articles and book chapters.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Birthing Integration
Chapter 3 Evolving Definitions
Chapter 4 Discerning Systems
Chapter 5 Sensing Perception
Chapter 6 Connecting Tensions
Chapter 7 Developing Stages
Chapter 8 Maintaining Balance
Chapter 9 Running Energy
Chapter 10 Overflowing Pleasure
Chapter 11 Changing Roles
Chapter 12 Opening Connections
Chapter 13 Blending Gender
Chapter 14 Embracing Shadow
Chapter 15 Creating Focus

Editorial Reviews

Robins' well-researched text skillfully weaves historic perspectives with overviews of mind-body-spirit system theories and exercises designed to help us reconnect with others and our environment....Robins' detailed, richly interpretative, and practical study will find an audience among those who are seriously involved with alternative therapies.

Booklist

Suzann Robins maintains that we must truly love our Self before we can offer love to another. In order to do that she takes us through the necessary steps to truly become an Integrated Self, able to generate self love. Thus we are able to increase our capacity for creating loving relationships. She provides an inclusive overview of the history of healing from a scientific, spiritual and psychological perspective that carries the reader along on this fascinating journey to wholeness. Robins writes in a friendly style that is a pleasure to read.

Gloria Arenson

Happiness is an inside job, but it depends greatly on how well you integrate with loved ones, friends, and people in general. Love is the desire to do good for others. Suzann's book lays a solid foundation for building loving relations. Do good to yourself by following the path.

C. Norman Shealy

Suzann Robins has provided us with a readable and practical overview for how the cultivation of intuition, mindfulness, reflection, and intimacy can lead to a more integrated self and improved relationships, health, and happiness. Drawing from Eastern and Western sources, within historical perspectives, she traces these practices and perspectives across developmental stages and all levels of being, from the biological to the transpersonal. A particular strength of her book is the pervasive discussion of how to become more in tune with the energy systems of the body.

William L. Mikulas

Exploring Intimacy wakes us up to the infinite varieties of connection, human and divine. Suzann Robins skillfully weaves together the wisdom of scientists and healers across cultures and across history, and offers valuable suggestions for tapping into our own deep wisdom—especially to nurture our current relationships as teachers, healers, survivors, thrivers, and lovers.

Gina Ogden

Robins’ well-researched text skillfully weaves historic perspectives with overviews of mind-body-spirit system theories and exercises designed to help us reconnect with others and our environment....Robins’ detailed, richly interpretative, and practical study will find an audience among those who are seriously involved with alternative therapies.

January 2010 Booklist