Live Assertively

What is assertiveness? Why is it difficult? Why is it necessary? What will assertiveness accomplish? How do you do assertiveness? This booklet will answer these questions and offer a variety of relationship skills to build safety, mutual understanding, trust, and intimacy. We’ll highlight the differences between aggression and assertiveness, as well as the distinction between justified guilt and misplaced or undeserved guilt. You will learn how to connect with yourself and others, which will provide you with a foundation for responding to discrimination and handling conflicts more effectively. 

We’ll describe 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 the booklet, we’ll highlight how assertiveness skills promote peacebuilding outcomes. 

This will not be a light read. Although this booklet is intended to help everyone, we’ll describe how sexual/gender diversity and living assertively are related. We’ll start with how to use our bodies to act more assertively. 

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