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    8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness
    8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness
    8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness
    Audiobook7 hours

    8 Keys to Eliminating Passive-Aggressiveness

    Written by Andrea Brandt

    Narrated by Jessica Geffen

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    About this audiobook

    Guidance for dealing with this common and frustrating form of behavior.

    Many people often say “yes” to something when they'd rather say “no.” They offer cooperation through words but follow up with how they really feel-in actions that contradict their words. That's passive-aggression. At its heart, passive-aggression is about being untrue to oneself, which makes it impossible to have a clean relationship with others. Passive-aggression as a communication method doesn't make someone “bad.” It is simply a strategy learned in childhood as a coping mechanism, a hard-to-break habit. Changing passive-aggressive behavior requires knowledge, tools, and practice, as outlined here.

    This audiobook offers effective methods for transforming passive-aggression into healthy assertiveness to communicate in constructive ways through eight keys: Recognize Your Hidden Anger; Reconnect Your Emotions to Your Thoughts; Listen to Your Body; Set Healthy Boundaries; Communicate Assertively; Interact Using Mindfulness; Disable the Enabler; and Problem-Solve for Better Outcomes. Hands-on exercises are featured, enabling readers to better understand themselves.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781469056531
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      I found this to be a good introduction to the condition. It helped me better recognize it in my own self while I was thinking of others from the start. I appreciate the exercises offered with each key and the story-telling approach that allowed the listener to get inside a person's head while P/A was being displayed.

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