How to Hug a Porcupine is a small book about relationships with “thorny” people. Using the metaphor of the porcupine, tips are given & lessons are learnt on how to deal with a troubled, defensive person. The book explains how using questions and validating your interest in the person can help bring out their softer, gentler side. By understanding the porcupine personality, the nature of conflicts can be better understood and dealt with.
These tips are easily read and quick to digest, yet they hold much insight & understanding into dealing with a porcupine. At it’s most basic, the book shows us how using a kind, gentle & patient spirit in the examination of people and the root of issues beneath the exterior words tossed around can bring out an understanding that we cant see at face value.
In my opinion, everyone needs a reminder like this from time to time.
Most of us know someone who, for whatever reason, always seems to cause problems, irritate others, or incite conflict, ultimately making them toxic towards others & themselves . Often, these people are a part of our daily lives. The truth is that these people haven’t necessarily asked to be this way which is why understanding goes a long way.
Sometimes we need to learn new approaches to deal with people who are harder to get along with or love.
How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love Difficult People in Your Life, explains that making peace with others isn’t as tough or terrible as we think it is–especially when you can use an adorable animal analogy and apply it to real-life problems. How to Hug a Porcupine provides tips for calming the quills of parents, children, siblings, strangers, and other prickly people you may encounter. Among other tips, How to Hug a Porcupine includes: *Three easy ways to end an argument *How to spot the porcupine in others *How to spot the porcupine in ourselves With a foreword by noted psychotherapist Dr. Debbie Ellis, widow of Dr. Albert Ellis, How to Hug a Porcupine is a truly special book.
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