This is not just another white tower mental health book.This book is an easy-to-read series of actual, real-life events. It allows the reader to get a true sense of the critical importance of communication in interpersonal relationships. It is written for anyone wishing to learn “how to” incorporate healthy and effective techniques in their everyday lives. The methods are explained, practiced using interactive exercises, and then used in real-life stories that are marked to refer you to the technique being used. The book contains simple, easy to learn methods that Mrs. Gale has used to assist her clients for over 30 years.

Dirty Dishes and Other War Stories

The book’s title is a metaphor for an event that triggers an automatic emotional outburst.

The author uses several real-life situations that she has encountered in her professional counseling and business consulting practice to point out how, by using the proper communication skills, problems can be resolved without degenerating into a family or business crisis

• Dirty Dishes and Other War Stories
• Shattering the Barriers to Productive Communication
• Managing Emotions in the Workplace

This results oriented professional’s fast-paced, interactive programs are fun and produce results. Empower your people to overcome self-limiting beliefs, identify triggers that interfere with peak performance, communicate consciously, and get recurring issues resolved. If you are willing to devote just fifteen minutes to acquire a skill that you can use immediately, will improve all your relationships, produce immediate rewards, and then find out what she can do with even more time, hire Marla.

Expertise: Communication _ Relationships _ Personal

		Do you get caught in the middle of other peoples arguments? Learn how to stay out of the middle.
Do you get sucked into conversations designed to wear you down and make you say yes when you wanted to say no?  Learn how to avoid the Trout Fisherman.

The Broken Record Technique can save you.

The Book teaches the basic communication skills that lead to the ability to deal with differences and reach mutually acceptable solutions.

The Book describes common disastrous communication patterns that people use all the time. Learn what to do instead.

Are you and your spouse just not ‘connecting’? Feeling frustrated with how this relationship is turning out? Follow the proven methods described in easy to understand language and bring about significant improvement, painlessly.

Having difficulty dealing with your teenage son or daughter? Rest easy! By using the 7 step method described in this book you will soothe the troubled waters and begin to teach your children the fine art of personal communication, problem solving and conflict resolution that will last a lifetime.