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Why is the world so full of hatred and dividedness now?What can we do about it?We're all asking this timely question in contentious times. Research and humor mingle with memoir, alongside insights about simple ways to get through gutsy conversations, melting gridlock and boundaries in order to build bridges, even while sweating through it. Here we'll find easy to recall tools for crucial conversations and conflict. Whether you're challenged with relationships, marriages, kids, bosses, co-workers, friendships, neighbors, teachers, mediators, doctors, corporations, ailments, death or divorce - this book is relatable, riveting, helpful, inspiring and sometimes fun. Even your cat's hairballs show the reader how to get rid of blocked emotions, bringing relief. This book is readable, from the repair Byrne sees in her forty years of counseling and what creates it to her escape from the gynecologist with a misdiagnosis to the horrifying world news. Both hard and humorous lessons from her life bring us hope. Here we see a way out - a way to heal, we, the people and politics. - - - Katy Byrne, LMFT, MA ConversationsWithKaty.com Author of: The Power of Being Heard, Columnist The Sonoma Sun, formerly radio producer and host, KSVY, KVON, Sonoma, California north of San Francisco. - - - Psychology, self-help/ politics - Interpersonal relations and conflict resolution - Psychotherapy dialogue strategies - Mental Health - Improving communication in relationships - Learning effective conversation skills - How to prevent misunderstandings in relationships - How to talk about problems in relationships - Building trust with open dialogue

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"""The Power of Dialogue"" is written from the author's personal life experiences, observations of conflict within relationships and politics, and most importantly, from the insights gained from her therapy practice. Her message is clear: we need Dialogue more than ever in our world today to heal our increasing global culture of confrontation, war, and relational conflict."" - Linda Ellinor, co-author of Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation, now translated into six languages. ""Katy Byrne lays out a positive and important strategy to confront important issues that we all face in life - those difficult and hard to manage conversations we (really should) have with those we have to deal with at work and in social situations. If you are looking for tools and approaches that may help you manage emotional minefields, this book my help you better understand the psychological dynamics at work and how to maybe, just maybe create a breakthrough."" - Raymond Baltar, Environmental Project Manager"

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Katy Byrne, LMFT, MA, has been a licensed psychotherapist in California for over forty years and a columnist for The Sonoma Sun and Women's Voices for twenty years. She is the author of The Courage to Speak Up, The Power of Dialogue, and From Conflict to Communication (Lessons from Life and My Therapy Office.) Katy hosted radio at KSVY in Sonoma, California, and KVON in Napa for fifteen years. Her passion for helping clients, combined with her rolling words, moves us to laugh, cry, and speak up. Her fervent view of change and how it happens, both personally and politically, gets us off the couch. Her audacious authenticity stirs her stories, blending theories and ideas from many genius thinkers, authors, and activists. Katy Byrne's mission is clear: We urgently need to create a world bolstered by communication-not conflict. And she shows us how. - Katy Byrne, LMFT, MA, ConversationsWithKaty.com

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