“Where There’s Smoke: The Fire of Relational Aggression”
copyright 2008 Demian Elaine’ Yumei
Creativity and Connection
As a singer/songwriter, I, also, included four songs in this project, three of which came directly out of my experience with relational aggression. These songs were written in my music partnership with my dear friend, Stacey Young, as DreamSinger.
For the Sake of [...]

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“Where There’s Smoke: The Fire of Relational Aggression”
copyright 2008 Demian Elaine’ Yumei
A Word of Caution
The cover of this book, drawn by my oldest daughter, Dionna, is the double dragon. In the West, the dragon or serpent is often characterized as destructive and deceptive. In the East, the dragon is revered as a symbol for honesty [...]

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“Where There’s Smoke: The Fire of Relational Aggression”
copyright 2008 Demian Elaine’ Yumei
Introduction (continued)
Healing
Where There’s Smoke focuses on the context of relational aggression in order to bring to light various dynamics of covert abuse, but it does more than that. It offers healing. In defining the abuse, Where There’s Smoke outlines the steps to healing the [...]

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“Where There’s Smoke: The Fire of Relational Aggression”
copyright 2008 Demian Elaine’ Yumei
Introduction (continued)
Labels and Diagnoses
In this book I will focus on behavior more than labels or diagnoses. While labels can be extremely em-powering, even liberating, they can also take on a power of their own, much more than they merit.
The question of a diagnosis, in [...]

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[Editor's Note: Here's the first segment. Original request expressed in this post: I'll have to split up the book sections for the sake of easier blog reading, but I will be publishing the pages in sequence. The format will, also, be slightly different for easier blog reading, but the words I publish here are the [...]

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