It's All Your Fault
Bill Eddy and Megan Hunter explore the five types of people who can ruin your life — people with high-conflict personalities — and how they weave themselves into our lives in romance, at work, next door, at school, places of worship, and just about everywhere, causing chaos, exhaustion, and dread for everyone else.
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Megan and Bill co-founded the High Conflict Institute in 2008. Between them, they've trained more than 500,000 professionals worldwide and written some of the most-referenced books in the field.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder San Diego, CABill pioneered the High Conflict Personality (HCP) Theory and is viewed globally as the leading expert on managing disputes involving people with high-conflict personalities. Author of 20+ books.
Megan Hunter, MBA
CEO & Co-Founder Scottsdale, AZMegan is HCI's CEO and a leading expert on high-conflict personalities — particularly in workplace, customer service, government, ombuds, and religious settings.
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From Case-by-Case to Conflict-Smart: High Conflict at Work, Part 4 of 4
High conflict behavior at work rarely stays contained to one person or one incident — it spreads across teams, drains HR's time, and quietly drives turnover and burnout long before anyone names it as…
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From Reacting to Responding: High Conflict at Work, Part 3 of 4
High conflict behavior doesn't just disrupt your team—it follows leaders home, costs organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars, and gets worse when managers react without a plan. The question…
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What HR Keeps Missing: High Conflict at Work, Part 2 of 4
High conflict at work rarely announces itself. By the time it becomes a formal HR complaint or a leadership crisis, the patterns were visible much earlier—and the tools most organizations rely on to…
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Why Workplace Conflict Is Surging: High Conflict at Work, Part 1 of 4
Workplace conflict is costing US businesses $359 billion a year—and behind a disproportionate share of that damage is high conflict behavior: the kind that ignores limits, escalates faster than most…
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Accepting the Limits of a High Conflict Relationship
High conflict relationships can leave you grieving something most people don't recognize as a real loss — not just the person, but the relationship you always hoped you could have. When someone in…
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How to Leave a High Conflict Relationship Without Escalating
Fear of retaliation keeps many people trapped in high conflict relationships long after they know they need to leave. Emotional explosions, smear campaigns, threats involving children, financial…
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