Do you know how to deal with your bully?  Bullying is a complex relationship behavior pattern that involves unwanted and unwarranted abuse.  Understanding the bullying cycle and abuse patterns can help you protect yourself.  The process of becoming bully-proof is explored through personal experience, supported by scientific studies, and developed as a holistic approach through the resilience of the Hero(ine)’s journey.

What You'll Learn

• understand the range and types of abusers that appear in organizational systems,
• the seven indicators that signal you are dealing with an intractable human being.
• how and what to document and what to share to build a case for protecting yourself.
• discover who management, regulatory and union members are and how to navigate the system.
• exactly “what” is pushing your stress buttons and why your bully is good at doing so.
• what Satir modes are and how they can help you “see” the bully coming.
• how "pushing-back" can actually keep the bully from bothering you.
• what you can file and why it may be important for you to file something.
• practical tips that can help you heal from the trauma of bully abuse.
• what your background may indicate about why you are being bullied.
• what it means to your resilience to reframe your bullying experience.
• what resources are available for you to heal from your traumatic work experience.  




What People Are Saying

Dr. Gary Namie has written the Foreword to this book and calls it “…an accessible, pragmatic, honest encouragement for bullied individuals to take the journey…to heal.”




Amy Schellenberg, Education Heals Wounds, writes, “Dr. Nan’s expert advice is based on lived experience. She truly understands workplace bullying because she has “been there, done that.” Dr. Nan puts the reader at ease from the beginning and that feeling of comfort and trust gets stronger with each chapter.”