Useful tips and ideas for how to love and understand the prickly people in your lifeat 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 havent 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 Porcupine explains that making peace with others isnt as tough or terrible as we think it isespecially when you can use an adorable animal analogy and apply it to reallife problems. Whether you want to calm the quills of parents children siblings or strangers How to Hug a Porcupine provides 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. show more