Useful tips and ideas for how to love and understand the \"prickly\" people in your life-at home, at work, and in your community

Most of us know someone who, for whatever reason, always seems to cause problems, irritate others, or incite conflict. Often, these people are a part of our daily lives. The truth is that these trouble makers haven&t necessarily asked to be this 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 Porcupineexplains 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. Whether you want to calm the quills of parents, children, siblings, or strangers,How to Hug a Porcupineprovides useful tips for your encounters with \"prickly\" people, such as:

• 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.