Mira Kirshenbaum - The Emotional Energy Factor: The Secrets High-Energy People Use to Beat Emotional Fatigue

In this upbeat and consumer-friendly how-to Kirshenbaum helps readers identify the roots of their lethargy, and implement the appropriate strategies for regaining their spunk. Her solutions are straightforward it may be enough to lift readers out of the doldrums.

Publishers Weekly

Fascinating! I think people need to grasp the premise in this book that physical energy amounts to only thirty percent of total energy. Seventy percent of a persons energy must come from emotional energy. Everyone should read this book.Thyroid patients could especially be empowered with such knowledge.

Kelly R. Hale, President, American

Foundation of Thyroid Patients Kirshenbaum offers concrete tips for increasing emotional energy, pepper ing her advice with real-life anecdotes.

Dayton Daily News (Ohio)

Every woman I know needs the sound, simple, and satisfying advice Mira Kirshenbaum so effectively offers here. Read this life-changing book, and youll not only release the negative emotions that are paralyzing your life youll also reclaim the positive energy necessary to add more joy to your days and vitality to your years. I highly recommend it!

Debra Waterhouse, M.P.H., R.D., author of Outsmarting Female Fatigue

Mira Kirshenbaums latest book addresses the most important and least understood ingredient in maintaining high energy. This practical, easy-to-understand book takes cutting-edge research and puts it in the hands and hearts of everyone who wants the opportunity for a high-spirited life. Every patient I see asks me how to increase energy; Mira has provided the answer. Highly recommended.

Arthur P. Ciaramicoli, Ed.D., Ph.D., author of The Power of Empathy

Mira Kirshenbaums book brims over with emotional energy, providing clear access to the rich resources we all carry within us. I recommend this book to all of us who tend to feel deeply depleted by the demands and stresses of our busy lives.

Rabbi Ted Falcon, Ph.D., author of A Journey of Awakening

This book is a must-read, offering the best answers Ive seen anywhere. It is the true energy source for the 21st century!

Nicole Wise, co-author of The Over-Scheduled Child

Reading [this book] is like sitting down with a wise, caring, high-energy friend. You come away refreshed, rejuvenated, and inspired by dozens of new ways to re-energize yourself.

Mary J. Shomon, author of Living Well With Hypothyroidism

This book is so filled with kindness and understanding and encourages such self-compassion.What a wonderful, life-affirming book.

Sandi Shelton, author of Preschool Confidential

Mira Kirshenbaum cuts to the chase in all her booksand she does so again in THE EMOTIONAL ENERGY FACTOR. She tells you everything you need to know about increasing emotional energy and using that energy to improve every area of your lifefrom relationships to career.

Susan Bakos, author of Still Sexy

This book provides millions of Americans with the opportunity to live a productive and meaningful life. By utilizing the revolutionary tools to cultivate emotional energy, Mira Kirshenbaum has provided Baby Boomers with a clear strategy to cultivate self-meaning. This is one of the best books on the topic I have read in years! Bravo! An incredible and insightful resource.

Christopher L. Hayes, Ph.D., author of Our Turn: Women Who Triumph in the Face of Divorce

A hopeful, useful, easy-to-read book that helps readers regain their zest while finding a path to owning their lives and achieving emotional well-being. A wonderful book with a moving message; a must read!

Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., author of Healing the Heart

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

You can do what I did. You can even make a game of it. Think about all the people in your life, everyone you know, and guess which ones have emotional energy.

Its not always easy to tell. Some very quiet people are filled with it. Some very perky, positive-sounding people are putting up a brave front and really have little emotional energy.

Everyone who reads this book will be able to tell who is who. But once you sense who has emotional energy, then those people have a real gift for you. Emotional energy is contagious. When youre with someone who has it, you start feeling it too.

People with emotional energy also have a special gift for me. These are the people that I most want to thank for making this book possible. They are friends, colleagues, teachers, students, clients, acquaintances, and family. They are also wonderful strangers who agreed to participate in the research much of this book is based on. Each of them taught me important lessons about how we lose emotional energy and what we can do to get it back.

I cant thank everyone by name. There are just too many. But I must single out Herbert Berghof, Ruth Bork, Diane Boudreau, Martin Buber Judith Chan, Lynette Cunningham, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Norma de Jesus, Marybeth English, Nancy Fain, Esther Feiler, Roger Fisher, Sonia Freund, Vivian Green, Shere Hite, Kathleen Huntington, Alfred Kazin, Allan Kaprow, Pearl Karch, Carolyn Kreinsen, Rabbi Harold Kushner, Matt Lauer, Chloe Madanes, Franny Peterson, Sally Jessy Raphael, Father Bill Richardson, Cynthia Roe, Naomi Saperstein, Virginia Satir, Pepper Schwartz, Sallie Sears, Gitta Sereny, Pilani Shipp, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Patti Smith, John Stossel, DeeDee Warren, Rosa Wexler, Carl Whitaker, and Elie Wiesel.

Its an open secret that my partner and husband, Dr. Charles Foster and I are full, 50/50 collaborators on all of our books. This book was no exception. Every word, every idea, is as much his as it is mine. For years we worked on the research together, trying to pinpoint exactly what it is that people do to get more emotional energy for themselves. Those writers who work in utter solitudehow do they do it? Without the energy Charles has brought to this process, I dont know if this book would have been possible.

I feel very lucky to have the best agent in the business, Howard Morhaim. Our relationship is eight years old now, a long one in publishing, I think. Howards been great to me through all my ups and downs, and Im very thankful.

Im also lucky to have a terrific editor, Danielle Perez, who believes in me and deeply understands what Im trying to do. Danielle immediately had the vision to see what was important about this project. And she worked brilliantly to make sure that the final book lived up to that vision.

Barb Burg has the reputation of being one of the smartest publicity people in publishing, and Im grateful for everything she and all the other wonderful people in her department have done to bring this book to peoples attention.

After working on eight books, I can say that my copy editor, Sue Warga, is the best Ive ever had.

This book is filled with people. My last and greatest debt is to the men and women who shared their lives with me. Their stories of emotional fatigue and emotional energy, in their own words, are a deep source of inspiration and understanding. You know who you are, and I thank you with all my heart.