Live Assertively

What is assertiveness? Why is it difficult? Why is it necessary? What will assertiveness accomplish? How do you do assertiveness? This 192-page resource will answer these questions. We’ll suggest a variety of relationship skills to enhance safety, mutual understanding, trust, and intimacy. We’ll highlight differences between aggression and assertiveness, misplaced guilt and justified guilt, and the costs of living non-assertively. You will learn how to connect with yourself and others. This will give you a foundation for responding to discrimination and for handling interpersonal conflicts and emotions well.

We’ll provide a framework for understanding how and why we as humans copy our relationship dynamics from our caregivers and cultures. This framework may help you decide which dynamics to continue and which to replace. We’ll discuss developing skills of self-care, resilience, and coping, including making decisions about alcohol and drug use. We’ll suggest dating guidelines and how to act assertively in sexual situations. Throughout, we’ll highlight how assertiveness helps build internal and social sustainable peace. This will not be a light read.

Although this booklet is meant to help everyone, we’ll describe how sexual/gender diversity and living assertively are related.

Which price fits your resources? Coauthors receive 100% of the payment and also want their booklet available to everyone. Audiobooks are coming later.