Living Successfully With Screwed Up People Book Review

Today I will be discussing the book “ living successfully with screwed-up people. In this article, I will go over basic information about the author and the book and how you can use this book’s content.

We all have screwed-up people in our lives that we have to deal with. This book was designed with all those people in mind, even if the screwed-up person is you. 

As you will soon see, this book will go into great detail on how to effectively deal with these people so we can live happier and more balanced lives. So, if you are dealing with a screwed-up person in your life right now, this is a review you might want to read.

Let me jump-start this article with a bit of information about the author.

About The Author:

The author’s name is Elizabeth B Brown. She has a degree in psychology and counseling from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a well-known speaker and teacher.

She teaches a course on death and dying at East Tennessee University. She lives in Tennessee with her husband. This is her first book, and it has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide.

About The Book:

This book is 234 pages of step-by-step information about how to successfully deal with people who bring chaos and craziness into our lives. Elizabeth breaks her book down into 19 chapters to give you the most profound understanding of how people can get screwed up and how to deal with them when they are. She starts this book off in chapter one with,

1. Put on your glasses – pages 13-25. In this chapter, she explains the foundations of a healthy relationship.
2. When the pressure is on – pages 26-36. This chapter it is explained how to recognize problems and their causes.
3. Who is screwed up? – pages 37-47. This chapter explains that we all have issues and how to find our way through issues that create real problems.
4. Get off the fence.- pages 48-61. This chapter goes into how we need to own our choices.
5. Pul out the splinters- pages 62-68. This chapter explains how it is important to take care of your own emotional needs.
6. Heal the hidden wound.-pages 69-82. This chapter goes into how to dig deep to find any past hurts and then tells you what you can do to begin to heal.
7. Can aligned relationships make you sick? – pages 83-92. This chapter talks about how to figure out if our emotions are in the driver’s seat or not.
8. We are handling frazzled emotions – pages 92-105. This chapter goes into facing reality and the differences between emotions and reason.
9. Let go of the past- pages 106-117. This chapter explains the true sources of unhappiness and how you can handle the reality around you.
10. Buttons and triggers – pages 118-125. This chapter discusses recognizing your buttons and motivations and then developing techniques to keep them in check.
11. Make anger your ally.-pages 126-135. This chapter talks about how to use your emotions to help you in dealing with difficult people situations.
12. Fight fair with unfair people.- pages 16-154. This chapter goes in-depth about main games and manipulations and how you can be assertive rather aggressive when dealing with tactics.
13. How can I ever forgive – pages – 155- 165. This chapter is on how to reach deep inside and find a way to forgive for their sake and yours.
14. How often do I say “sorry”- pages 165-175. This chapter explains how apologies work or how they should work.
15. Touch with words.-pages 177-192. This chapter discusses how to find a compromise and common ground in any situation.
16. Is “Different” screwed up? -pages 193-202. This chapter gives you a healthy dose of reality checks.
17. When you want to help.-pages 203-218. This chapter explains both good and bad ways that we can help others.
18. See the possibilities – on pages 219-233. This chapter will show you how to see the possibilities in even the worst relationships and situations.
19. She was dancing with porcupines-pages 234-242. In this final chapter, she explains how you can be happy and at peace even when dealing with these difficult people.

How To Use This Book:

In each chapter, she ends it with what she calls lifelines. In each of these lifelines, she gives you techniques you can use to help you better handle or at least cope with those difficult people. Some examples of these lifelines that she gives you are:

• Relationship low points can be hope points
• The hope is a new beginning
• See what you have- the past, what you want- the present, and what can be.
• It’s not wrong to have negative emotions.

In each chapter, she ends with 4 or 5 lifelines, such as the ones I gave as examples above. These lifelines keep you in a positive state of mind along with ever-renewing hope for a better and healthier relationship with those difficult people. They are also designed to help you if you are the screwed-up one who needs help to become healthier.

Final Thoughts:

When you have finished this book, you are left with a completely new understanding of yourself and all those difficult people in your life. However, you will also be left with a sense of hope of the possibility that things could get better, which is in a seemingly impossible relationship and will likely be a god-sent.

If you are dealing with a relationship that you are struggling with, this book is just what the doctor ordered if you want to salvage the relationship at all.

You can purchase this book on Amazon or just about any book store for around$10 if you are interested in reading it.

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