© 2020 Bill Eddy

How are you doing during this homebound coronavirus crisis? We hope you’re managing okay, staying healthy and washing your hands a lot. This article is about the reality that even during a crisis we still have to deal with some difficult people. With this in mind, here are several ...

© 2017 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Difficult people – people with high conflict tendencies - have a pattern of negative behavior with four primary characteristics: All-or-nothing thinking; unmanaged emotions; extreme behavior or threats; and a preoccupation with blaming others. Therefore, they tend to es...

© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

People with High Conflict tendencies or characteristics are popping up everywhere these days. From high conflict divorce, to sexual harassment in the workplace, to leaders of countries threatening nuclear war! In my newest book, 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life,...

©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

For the past twenty years I have been studying and teaching about 'people with high-conflict characteristics and how to manage them in legal disputes, workplace disputes, neighbor disputes and other situations. People with high-conflict characteristics have a narrow pers...

© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

People with high conflict tendencies will generally display high conflict behaviour. This means they have an ongoing pattern of all-or-nothing thinking, unmanaged emotions, extreme behavior or threats, and a preoccupation with blaming others. They have a Target of Blame...

© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. ©2019

This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life, including in love relationships, in the workplace and in legal disputes. Major decisions are often made by assuming that someone will or won’t change their negative behaviors. Yet there are many fac...

©2020 Andrea La Rochelle

My ego can get the best of me.  Like, full on, I’m right – you’re wrong, ego.  Full on ‘Andrea, you are small, incapable and useless.’ It doesn’t happen often anymore and when it does happen, it passes quickly.  THANK HEAVENS.

But you know where my ego still trips me up???...

© 2016 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

When family and friends gather for this holiday season, it can be a time of joy—and conflict. This year, after 18 months of a bruising campaign for President of the United States, there will be added tension if family members and friends voted for opposing candidates. N...