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What is assertiveness? Why can it feel challenging? Why does it matter? What can assertiveness help you do, and how do you practice it? This book answers these questions and shares many relationship skills. It explains the difference between assertiveness and aggression and between justified guilt and guilt that does not belong to you. You will learn ways to connect with yourself and others. These skills can support you when facing discrimination, conflict, or rejection.

This book also explains a framework for understanding how people often repeat relationship patterns learned from caregivers and culture. This framework may help you decide which patterns you want to keep and which ones you want to change. The book covers self-care, resilience, and coping skills, including choices about alcohol and drug use. It also offers guidance on dating and on acting assertively in sexual situations. Throughout the book, we explain how assertiveness skills can support peacebuilding.

This is not a light read. While the book is meant to support many people, it also explains how sexual and gender diversity can relate to living assertively.