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How to Have That Difficult Conversation
- Gaining the Skills for Honest and Meaningful Communication
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Full of practical tips and how-tos, this audiobook will help you make your relationships better, deepen your intimacy with people you care for, and cultivate more love, understanding, and respect between you and others.
Successful people confront well. They know that setting healthy boundaries improves relationships and can solve important problems. They have discovered that uncomfortable situations can be avoided or resolved through direct conversation. But most of us don't know how to have difficult conversations, and we see confrontation as scary or adversarial.
Authors Henry Cloud and John Townsend take the principles from their award-winning and best-selling book, Boundaries, and apply them to a variety of the most common difficult situations and relationships in order to:
- Show how healthy confrontation can improve relationships
- Present the essentials of a good boundary-setting conversation
- Provide tips on preparing for the conversation
- Show how to tell people what you want, stop bad behavior, and deal with counterattack
- Give actual examples of conversations to have with your spouse, your date, your kids, your coworker, your parents, and more!
This audiobook is a practical handbook on positive confrontation that will help you finally have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding.
A discussion guide is included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Adrian B.
- 12-31-21
Great book with substantial information and examples
Understanding healthy confrontation changed the way I see, give and receive the information and energy into any type of confrontation.
I would have liked the book to focus more on other types of relationships than spouse relationship such as friends, business and work.
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- Jared A. Wagner
- 10-30-21
Highly recommend
Excellent book, a very good follow up to Boundaries and Changes that heal. It gives a lot of insight to imbalance of power in ourselves that bleed into relationships.
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- True Son
- 02-07-21
Super clear
Sometimes the style is a bit formulaic but I definitely gained a ton of insight and great results. Highly recommend to anyone struggling to confront!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-02-22
Too Formal and not enough real world substance
struggling to finish this title. most of this is all common sense and they don't provide many real world relataable examples.
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- Keith Malcolm
- 04-08-22
Religion
To much religious references, not pointed out in summary, not my style of book personally.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-22-22
Not bad, better reads out there
This book reinforced some key messages from other similar reads. Overall the constant references to God/the bible ruined it for me personally, and I found ‘Thanks for the Feedback’ to be comparably a much better read on all fronts. I’d start with that as opposed to this if you’re looking to tackle difficult conversations.