Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation

Description: Overcoming Your Difficult Family by Eric Maisel Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description A former family therapist shows readers how to stay sane when their family isnt Publisher Description Weve all been invited to the Thanksgiving dinner where we know that Aunt Louise will be drunk; cousin Larry will scream at his kids and wife; Uncle Ben will try to talk us out of our current career and ask intrusive questions about our relationship; and Cousin Sue will break into tears because her brother just came out as gay. In addition, weve all repeated conversations about the same topics with family members until our heads spin, but nothing is ever resolved. How do we move on? How do we live our own lives without getting sucked back into these sorts of destructive family dynamics and patterns? There is no pill that can make family life easy. There is no pill that can spare you pain if one of your parents is alcoholic, if one of your children is troubled, if your mother meddles in all your affairs, if your brother is needy and always trying to manipulate others in the family, or if your mate is cheating on you. But, finally, there is a solution. In Overcoming Your Difficult Family, renowned therapist Eric Maisel presents eight skills that individual can employ to survive difficult family life and, sometimes, even improve family life for everyone involved.Life is difficult and family life, with overlapping egos and various dynamics and relationships among family members, is even more difficult to navigate. Working as a family therapist with families, as a life coach and creativity coach with individuals, and as a mental health reformer within a system that isnt helpful enough, Maisel knows that family life regularly takes its toll and that, when it does, little help is available. Finally, a simple approach to a difficult problem. Maisel presents eight skills and demonstrates how to use them. The skills (which include remaining present, being brave, finding resilience,and being calm) to use in these situations and then describes twelve ?difficult" family situations (such as argumentative or controlling families, bullying and critical families) and how to use the skills in each situation. No family is alike, but the skills to handle these often emotionally fraught and complicated situations can be learned and they will help you transform your own life if not your family. By resorting to these skills again and again, readers will find a way to navigate the chaotic and challenging situations and remain calm and confident.Overcoming Your Difficult Family is made up of two parts: a skills section in which Maisel explains and teaches the eight skills needed in most family situations; and a second section where he describes and illustrates various common family configurations (rule-bound families, chaotic families, sad and anxious families, etc.) and explains how you can employ the eight skills in each of those families. Whether the challenges readers face are with one family member, or the entire clan, the skills taught here will help them through each situation, as they learn to take care of themselves first and not react to negative or destructive behavior patterns and language from others. With the description of the difficult families and patterns, Maisel goes on to describe how to use the skills youve learned in each of these family situations. Author Biography Eric Maisel, PhD, is a retired family therapist, a creativity and life coach, and the author of more than fifty books. He writes the "Rethinking Mental Health" blog for Psychology Today and the "Coaching the Artist Within" column for Professional Artist magazine and lectures throughout the world. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Details ISBN 1608684512 ISBN-13 9781608684519 Title Overcoming Your Difficult Family Author Eric Maisel Format Paperback Year 2017 Pages 256 Publisher New World Library GE_Item_ID:140411739; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. 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