When You Need To Take A Stand
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Overview
Interpersonal relationships and personal growth can be enhanced when you speak up for what you believe in. Drawing upon her counseling experience as well as her struggles in her own relationships as a mother, wife, pastor, and teacher, Carolyn Stahl Bohler presents guidelines for deciding when and how to take stands and finding strength to do so.Taking a stand, says Bohler, encourages honesty, integrity and self-esteem, even at the risk of being misunderstood. Each chapter concludes with reflections for personal meditation or group discussion.
Synopsis
Interpersonal relationships and personal growth can be enhanced when you speak up for what you believe in. Drawing upon her counseling experience as well as her struggles in her own relationships as a mother, wife, pastor, and teacher, Carolyn Stahl Bohler presents guidelines for deciding when and how to take stands and finding strength to do so.
Taking a stand, says Bohler, encourages honesty, integrity and self-esteem, even at the risk of being misunderstood. Each chapter concludes with reflections for personal meditation or group discussion.
Library Journal
This book is a fairly sophisticated but clear and straightforward discussion of relationships, conflict, ``taking a stand,'' empowering others, and intimacy and integrity in interpersonal communication. The book uses a wide variety of examples from everyday life and occasionally from the Bible and from religious heroes such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Basic concern about human dignity makes this book useful to almost anyone who needs awareness of or skill in assertive (nonaggressive, nonpassive) communication.