Healthy Relationships

As go people’s ability to do relationships – understand and manage their emotions, communicate, listen, manage conflict, be empathic, and forgive – so goes the health of their friendships, marriages and families, their ability to get and keep jobs, to break the chain of poverty and to contribute to the greater community. As go people’s ability to do relationships, so goes their future. The fact is that relationships matter. Some people have emotional intelligence – ability to let you form optimal relationships with yourself and others. EQ is the capacity for recognizing your own feelings and those of others, for motivating yourself, for managing emotions well in yourself and in your relationships. Four competencies of EQ are: 1. Self -awareness: Recognizing your emotions and their effects; knowing your strength and limitations; and having a strong sense of your capabilities and self-worth. 2. Self – management: managing your emotions by keeping disruptive emotions and impulse...

Your relationships with others are key to your mind, body, and spirit and therefore you want to make sure that they are healthy ones. Your relationships give you a gauge of how your life is going.   You will have multiple relationships throughout your life – classmates, coworkers, family, and friends and romantic. To, have good relationships there some factors accountability, safety, honesty, support, cooperation, and trust. Are we aware of the type of relationships we have with those that are close to us?