Childhood Abuse, Spiritual Abuse, and the Need for Emotional Intelligence

It starts with what’s called emotional intelligence which is the ability to monitor one’s own emotions and the emotions of others with the purpose to “identify and use this information to guide one’s own thoughts and behaviors” (Zhao et al., 2020, p. 2022). In other words, emotional intelligence is the competence to sit down and break down the feelings one has, as they experience them, and to note the situations that draw them out.