Dr. Ahuja is an eye surgeon based in Hamilton, Ontario. Having gotten her medical degree from McMaster University, she is currently the McMaster Ophthalmology Division Head. She is also an EQ-i 2.0® Certified Practitioner. Her book, Stress in Medicine, speaks about the unique stresses that physicians face in their line of work.
The Third Edition of When Love Hurts is out and I encourage everyone to get a book, read it, and share it with a friend…
This month’s book is “Bully Free at Work” (2011) by Valerie Cade. I met Valerie at a presentation she gave at…
Once again, I have chosen to review a local Calgary author I met at the Calgary chapter of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers. Her name is Judy Arnall and her book is entitled, “Discipline Without Distress” (3rd Edition, 2010) and can best be described as an emotionally intelligent parenting book. The subtitle is “135…
I’m so excited by the books I’ve been given to review recently by really wonderful authors that I either know or have met. I’ve got quite the pile that I eagerly look forward to reading. Which one am I going to talk about this month? I think I have to mention my friend and colleague,…
This month’s book is “Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life: How dialectical behavior therapy can put you in control” by Scott E. Spradlin, A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook. This is a wonderful workbook that I have found to be invaluable for examining our own relationship with emotions. I bought it from Odin Books in…
In his book, Robinson observes that emotional intelligence skill development takes a back seat to the ever more competitive drive for higher marks and academic excellence. He then goes on to develop a lucid …
“The Other Kind of Smart: Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success”, by Harvey Deutschendorf, 2009. Harvey was a participant in one of my courses very early on in the ’90s – an ‘early adopter’ and has written a marvelous…
I’ve worked very hard to develop a good reputation for myself as an ambassador for emotional intelligence – but social media poses new challenges
Finding Your Way Home: a soul survival kit – tools for discovering your emotional and spiritual power by Melody Beattie While this book has a high foo foo factor and refers to God a lot (this can also be a God of your understanding), there is a lot of great stuff here. I have trouble…
How We Choose to Be Happy: The 9 Choices of Extremely Happy People–Their Secrets, Their Stories by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks I love this book! I know, you’ve heard that before, but this book, a gift from a wonderful Bay Area coach, Anke Thiele, is unique in that the authors travelled around looking for…
“The Brain that Changes Itself: stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science”, Norman Doige, MD 2007 This book is an extremely readable book about some very technical stuff and provides a great deal of hope for people who suffer the effects of stroke, learning disabilities, aging and other factors that affect brain functioning. The book…