How To Hug A Porcupine

101 Ways to Love Difficult People in Your Life

Hatherleigh Press, Hatherleigh Press

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Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
10 March 2009

Health & Self-Help; Coping with personal problems

"Every one of us has at least one difficult person in our life! Here are tips and ideas for loving and understanding them.

Innovative and refreshing strategies for how to love, understand, and communicate with difficult people-at home, at work, and in your community

Most of us know someone who, for whatever reason, always seems to cause problems, irritate others, or incite conflict. Often, these people are a part of our daily lives. The truth is that these troublemakers haven't necessarily asked to be this way. Sometimes we need to learn new approaches to deal with people who are harder to get along with or love.

How to Hug a Porcupine explains that making peace with others isn't as tough or terrible as we think it is-especially when you can use an adorable animal analogy and apply it to real-life problems. Whether you want to calm the quills of parents, children, siblings, or strangers, How to Hug a Porcupine provides useful tips for your encounters with ""prickly"" people, such as-

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Three easy ways to end an argument .

How to spot the porcupine in others .

How to spot the porcupine in ourselves

With a foreword by noted psychotherapist Dr. Debbie Ellis, widow of Dr. Albert Ellis, How to Hug a Porcupine is a truly special book."

Edited by: Hatherleigh Press
Assisted by: Hatherleigh Press
Imprint: Hatherleigh Press,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 181mm, Width: 121mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 212g
ISBN: 9781578262939
ISBN 10: 1578262933
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 10 March 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Debbie Joffe Ellis is a licensed psychologist in Australia and mental health counselor in New York. She is affiliated with several major psychological associations and societies including being a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, and an International Affiliate Member of the American Psychological Association. For several years, she worked with her husband, Dr. Albert Ellis, giving public presentations and professional trainings in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), as well as collaborating on writing and research projects, until his death in 2007. She now continues to present, practice and write about his groundbreaking psychotherapeutic approach of REBT. She has also co-authored several forthcoming books with Dr. Albert Ellis. She currently has a private practice in New York City, and also delivers lectures, workshops and seminars throughout the U.S.A. and across the globe.