Difficult Emotions

At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their—and your own—emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive.

Reverse Meditation is for anyone who wants to bring the challenges of life onto the path of awakening. When things get hard, it’s time to turn your practice on its head—and throw out any assumption that meditation exists to insulate you from the confusion, difficulties, and uncertainty of life. “By putting your meditation into reverse,” Holecek teaches, “you’ll actually find yourself going forward. Step into your pain and you can step up your evolution.”

Introducing the ultimate guide to personal growth and effective communication: "Mastering Emotional Intelligence and Verbal Aikido: A Guide to Influencing Others and Dealing with Difficult People." Are you ready to unlock your full potential and navigate through any interpersonal challenge with grace and finesse? Look no further! This Amazon e-book offers a transformative journey into the realm of emotional intelligence and verbal aikido, equipping you with the skills to influence others and effortlessly handle difficult people. With "Mastering Emotional Intelligence and Verbal Aikido," ...

Seventeen-year-old Piper knows that Father is a Prophet. Infallible. The chosen one. She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the-world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings, from Mother, from the Aunts, from all of Father's followers - even from Caspian, the boy she loves.

The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask" We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a spouse, or negotiating with a client. From the...

If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn't work. Once you're done eating, you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression, anxiety, boredom, stress, and anger and a reliable reward when it's time to celebrate.

Want to find a way to stop someone in your life from gaslighting you without having to struggle a day longer? Time to stand up for yourself, show the world your true worth, and be more than the difficult people ever thought you would be? You’re someone who has so much in life to give, which is why it’s such a puzzle that you think you’re worth nothing right now. Well, actually, it’s entirely understandable, given the pressure you’re constantly being put under by the actions of others.

Do you struggle with a nagging feeling of not being enough? Or that you don't have enough, whether of money, time, friends, and so on? Do you find that your life feels small or meager or lacking in some way? Would you like to experience greater richness and abundance in your life? In this book, you will discover how you can work with your feelings of lack and not enough, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. Habitual mental/emotional patterns such as defensiveness, low self-esteem, and fear of failure, which can bring about great distress for ourselves and others are also ...

Are you confused about your direction in life? Do you struggle with a lack of clarity? Do you suffer from fear of the unknown and an accompanying anxiety? Would you like to experience a greater sense of spaciousness in your life? And in your heart and mind? In this book, you will discover how you can work with your confusion and denial, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. This is a book on how you can get to the heart of confusion to find its intrinsic gifts. Discover and uncover the hidden narrative within difficult mental and emotional states In some self-help and meditation...

Do you wish your life could be filled with a greater sense of flow? Do you struggle with issues of control and judgment? Do you lack the willingness to do things that you know to be of benefit to you? Would you like to know how to discern the important moments in an endeavor or a life? In this book, you will discover how you can work with your feelings of antagonism, competitiveness, jealousy, and more, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. Habitual mental/emotional patterns such as judgmentalness, selfishness, hatred, and a need for control , which can bring about great ...

One conversation is all it takes to break a world wide open. Seventeen-year-old Macy Lyons has been through something no one should ever have to experience. And she's dealt with it entirely alone. On the outside, she's got it pretty good. Her family's well off, she's dating the cute boy next door, she has plenty of friends, and although she long ago wrote her mother off as a superficial gym rat, she's thankful to have allies in her loving, laid-back dad and her younger brother.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was...

You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell, or blame you, or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive—not combative.

Shelby was in a devastating car accident, and everyone in town thinks that she was undergoing more physical therapy in Denver. Instead, Shelby's mother enrolled her in a clinical program to stop the panic attacks that started after the crash. The treatment erased Shelby's memory of the accident, but she can't help feeling as if a piece of herself is missing, that the treatment took more than the doctors claimed.

A groundbreaking book that reveals the hidden architecture of our conversations and how even small improvements can have a profound impact on our relationships in work and life—from a celebrated Harvard Business School professor and leading expert on the psychology of conversation. “Alison...

💥 Built On Neuroscience. Designed For Real Life. Created With Dr. Deebika Balu, PhD ⚡️ Fast Results Workbook Included • Designed For Daily Use & Immediate Results ⚡️ 💬 Do You Say Things You Regret — Then Criticize Yourself For It? 🥶 Shut Down, Blow Up, Or Freeze When It Matters Most? 🧠 What If You Could Stay Steady, Even When You’re Triggered? When pressure spikes or conflict hits, your brain hijacks your best intentions. You say things you don’t mean. You shut down when you need to speak up. Your thoughts race, your chest tightens — and just like that, the ...

A New Way Of Understanding Emotions With 44 Strategies To Live By For A Healthy Dose Of Feeling Good Theraphy In This Modern Age Are you constantly finding yourself in the middle of a difficult emotion and you just can't figure out how to deal with it? Or tired of feeling negative over and over, like a victim of your own feelings, and you now want to find a way to handle or control your emotions more effectively? The Solution Stop the spiral of negative emotions as they arise by first having a deeper understanding why you're feeling these negative emotions, and then gaining power over them ...

>"Lily?" My stomach dropped as a tall, dark-haired man stepped into view. Had he been hiding between the trees? "No. Sorry." Gulping, I took a step back. "I'm not Lily." He shook his head, a satisfied grin on his face. "No. You are Lily." "I'm Summer. You have the wrong person." For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out....

After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savannah Litchfield has been living half a life. Now seventeen—the age Poppy died—the pain of losing her is worse than ever. When Savannah’s therapist suggests a trip around the world to help teens stricken by loss, she reluctantly agrees to it, clutching the unread journal Poppy left her as she goes.

Introducing "The Art of Letting Go," an insightful new eBook that seeks to guide you through the sometimes labyrinthine stages of ending relationships, and more importantly, fostering a healthy approach to moving on. This groundbreaking volume represents a unique journey, mining the complexities of interpersonal relationships, offering a fresh and enlightening perspective about why and when they might need to end. Explore the many facets of emotional exhaustion, lack of mutual respect, constant conflict, and lingering dissatisfaction that add to the challenge. Through "The Art of Letting Go...