In an intimate relationship, it is a common error to believe that emotional closeness and tension can't co-exist-that love and anger can't sit at the same end of the couch. Riding the Passionate Edge: Converting Tension into Emotional Intimacy turns this mistaken idea upside down. Believing that unresolved tension creates estrangement and loneliness, authors Mary and Tom Cushman provide concrete skills for transforming relationships-even those that feel beyond repair. In Riding the Passionate Edge, readers will learn how to change corrosive conflict into pathways to deep emotional intimacy.
Riding the Passionate Edge is about learning how to risk our most vulnerable selves in the relationships we value most, reaching for a far greater experience of aliveness in ourselves and in those relationships. The book challenges the idea that emotional tension is inconsistent with emotional intimacy. Instead, it makes a powerful case that engaging tension directly and skillfully will bring new life to our loving, and restore lost spontaneity. It seeks to deepen our capacities for empathetic listening, straight talk, compassion and forgiveness-healing the damage caused by unresolved emotional wounds.
Riding the Passionate Edge is written in a conversational, informal style, by a married pair of long-time counselors. It will nourish any reader seeking a concrete approach to intimate relationships that is direct and engaging.
