YOU’VE GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO HOLD ‘EM AND WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM

Strained or broken relationships are a given in most of our lives. Friends fall away, siblings drift apart, children sever ties with their parents, and despite our best efforts, these painful fissures are difficult to mend.

Best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi shares practical wisdom and strategies to help you navigate through friction-filled relationships. With heavy humor, Dr. Ray helps you form better ways to talk, think, act, and react to repair and strengthen relationships.

Through Dr. Ray’s down-to-earth style, professional experience, and personal stories, you will discover the key to neutralizing insults and offenses, and changing any relationship for the better. You will also learn:

• To avoid three conversation killers
• To more accurately read your own motives and those of others
• To become a smart listener
• To keep your expectations real
• To offer (and to receive) criticism
• When to speak up and when to shut up

Dr. Ray teaches you to avoid “psychological claptrap,” to respond more calmly to hurtful comments, and to communicate better with difficult people. You will become more easygoing, more forgiving, and less controlled by heated emotions.
Paperback. 149 pages.