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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Robert Augustus Masters for part two of our conversation on emotional intimacy. Robert Augustus Masters is an integral psychotherapist, a relationship expert and spiritual

teacher whose work blends the psychological and physical with the spiritual, emphasizing embodiment, emotional literacy,

and the development of relational maturity. He's the author of 13 books

including Transformation Through Intimacy and Spiritual Bypassing.

Available through Sounds True, Robert has released the Audio Learning Series, Knowing Your shadow, becoming intimate with all that you are, and a

new book, Emotional Intimacy, a comprehensive guide for connecting with the power of your emotions. In this episode, of of mutual transparency in relationships and how our preverbal attachment styles can play out in

committed relationship.

We also talked about the difference between Catharsis and what Robert calls connected Catharsis.

And finally, we talked about how to recognize when we're engaged in avoiding emotional experience through

spiritual bypassing and starting to identify and work with our own shadow

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