The dance of connection

I started this book today because our Thanksgiving begins on Friday, and I would like to do everything I can to have a lovely holiday and to build relationships with those people I love.

For me, this was a very helpful book.

Most importantly, Lerner reminds us over and over that we can try every idea in the book and things may still fail. I think that's a good reminder for me not to expect too much.

She also suggests we take things slowly, to expect that if things are to get better, it will probably take time.

Lerner offers ideas for how to respond in some common situations: when you disagree with someone, when someone is criticizing you, when you are being ignored, when you are talking too much, when you are angry.

I feel like I underlined everything in the book at times, but that's because it's a book with a lot of good stuff in it.