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Difficult People

By: Rebecca Ray
Narrated by: Rebecca Ray
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An explosive boss, a controlling boyfriend, a gaslighting colleague, an interfering mother-in-law, a friend who talks only about herself - we all know them, but how do we deal with them?

Difficult people take over our lives. They live rent-free in our heads. We steel ourselves before we meet them. We can't relax when we are with them. We ruminate on their behaviour after they've gone. They harvest our empathy and operate without regard for our feelings.

In Difficult People, Dr Rebecca Ray shows us how to recognise (and understand) difficult people and provides us with practical strategies for self-preservation. From learning when to say no, limiting contact, managing our reactions, and knowing when to walk away for good.

With her expertise, insight and guidance, we learn to understand how and when another person's behaviour puts our psychological safety at risk and what steps we can take to restore our boundaries.

Compassionate, honest and authoritative, this is your complete guide to getting your life back from the grip of a difficult relationship and learning how to avoid them in the future.

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©2023 Rebecca Ray (P)2023 Macmillan Australia Audio
Emotions Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Mental Health
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Highly recommend to understand how to cope with difficult people moving forward. Well thought and meaningful words said with such authenticity helping me to feel safe and strong.

Beautiful Book

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I really liked the self reflective questions, I have listened to the book, now I will go back and highlight pertinent words of wisdom in my hard copy. Thank you

Things can get better

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Whether you want to do your self reflection or advice on how to deal with difficult people, then this book is for you. It contains so many practical examples to make your life easier and also some Narrative that you can use to deal with other.

Survival skills for some

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This book was foundational to getting me out of a very difficult and sometimes dangerous relationship. It helped me to identify my own difficult behaviours and how they were preventing me from leaving a relationship that was psychologically (and sometimes phsyically) unsafe. Highly recommend to anyone who has experienced any form of difficult relationship in their life, or suspects they might be.

Years worth of therapy in one supportive book

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Really useful but the narration was difficult to handle - especially the bits where she laughs at her own jokes. That aside, the content was good enough that I persevered

Great material, subpar narration

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