Toxic People: 10 Ways Of Dealing With People Who make Your Life Miserable
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Dr. Lillian Glass, world renown communication expert is the original author of the best-selling book since 1995 Toxic People®. Through the popularity of this book she coined the phrase “toxic people” used in today’s vernacular. There are people who make your life miserable- a spouse, a parent, lover, friend. boss, or co-worker or even people with whom you do business. They can make you feel inadequate, worthless, causing emotional and physical distress. Dr. Glass has categorized 30 types of these “Toxic Terrors” from the “The Opportunistic User” ,”The Control Freak “, “The Me Myself and I Narcissist”,”The Instigator”, “The Meddler”, The Arrogant Know-It-All ” “The Wishy Washy Wimp”,and the “Liar” to name a few. Not all of these Toxic Terrors are toxic to everyone, They may just be Toxic to you personally. Dr. Glass gives you simple strategies to find out who is specifically specifically toxic to YOU. Not only does she help you identify the Toxic People in your life, she also provides 10 proven techniques for successfully dealing with them, including: Tension-Blowout, Unplugging, Direct Confrontation, Humor, Giving Them Love and Kindness,Mirroring and other techniques.
This book provides answers to the age old problem of how to deal with and heal from anyone who has caused havoc in your life and made it miserable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Certain people seem to exist to make us miserable. Glass, a California ``communications expert,'' terms these terrors Toxic People and identifies 30 types, some with humorous labels such as the Smiling Two-Faced Sneaky Back-Stabber and the Eddie Haskell. She provides a Toxic People Quiz to help readers identify which category a suspect toxic terror falls into and suggests 10 techniques to handle these folk: Humor, Direct Confront, Calm Questioning, Give-Them-Hell-and-Yell, Love and Kindness, Vicarious Fantasy, etc. And since we're all toxic, to some degree, a section on Toxic Comments and a Toxic Image Inventory are offered to help readers identify their own destructive behaviors. While the book doesn't rise above pop psychology, it is entertaining. Author tour.
