Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS has written nine non-fiction books and hundreds of articles for consumer magazines, newspapers, and other publications. She’s been published in Elegant Bride, The Saturday Evening Post, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Parenting, Woman’s World, Parents and dozens of regional parenting publications across the country. She wrote a column on work/life balance for the Pittsburgh Business Times and a column called “Family Answers” for parenting editors.

Additionally, Loriann has written these books that might interest you:

Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger From Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness

by U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy PhD and Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS

We all know what aggressive, “out there” anger looks like. It’s the covert, hidden anger — unleashed with sarcasm, criticism, stalling, blame, excuses, and mixed messages — that sneaks upon us. Unfortunately, the world has become accustomed to this behavior, and unwittingly grants secretly angry people many “free passes” without realizing it.

When was the last time you bought someone’s excuse or believed a certainly plausible alibi? If it’s become a pattern (and with some people it takes years to realize that pattern), then you’re likely dealing with a passive-aggressive companion, friend, co-worker, employee, boss, or child.

Tim Murphy and Loriann Oberlin share their wealth of experience, and use the four types of families and ten traits of anger that they first explored in The Angry Child in this follow-up book on anger. Having received complimentary endorsements from the field, this book is one of the few dedicated to this type of anger, and truly the only consumer book on the subject that explores it from many angles. Read more about the book at www.overcomingpassiveaggression.com.

Psychology Today featured this book in a two page spread. Read more here. The Washington Post also quoted Ms Oberlin about passive-agressive bosses.

The Angry Child: Regaining Control When Your Child Is Out of Control
by U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy PhD and Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS

This book grew out of the private practice, teaching and life experiences of Tim Murphy, PhD as he worked for 25 years as a psychologist helping children and families in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. That’s where he and Loriann Oberlin first met as contributors to a parenting publication there, and their writing collaboration began.

Today, Dr. Murphy helps families in another public service capacity with his work in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ms. Oberlin, in private practice of her own, has taken the messages of this book and their most recent one on hidden anger, to work with her clients.

The Angry Child helps families to explore the ten characteristics of an angry child, how they might fall into one of the four types of families who even create anger, and how to tell the difference when anger is something deeper — such as anxiety, depression, or the result of tensions between parents, a breakdown in learning, or other cause. Chapters in this book appeal to parents searching for ways around daily battles from homework to bedtime, and it offers dozens of solutions along the way to positive parenting.

Surviving Separation and Divorce: A Woman’s Guide to Regaining Control, Building Strength and Confidence, and Securing a Financial Future
by Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS

In the weeks and months following a marital separation, many women are forced to drastically change the course of their lives at the worst possible time. Emotionally drained, physically weak from stress and fatigue, women are challenged to get up and get their act together — fast — to support their children, and to restart their lives. This book, in its second edition, explores what women encounter being separated, sometimes uncertain if they’ll end up reconciling or if they’ll face a divorce.

Loriann Hoff Oberlin knows first-hand the struggle involved in starting over. Though she’s remarried, relocated, and re-established with a new career path, Loriann spent six years as a single mother of two young sons, lived through a litigious divorce, custody battle and has navigated her way through the interstate child support system advocating for her children all the way. She has written this lifestyle book for women to help every aspect of their lives, and devotes a good portion of her private practice to helping both parties and their children regain stability and civility following a marital breakup.

Writing for Quick Cash: Turn Your Way With Words Into Real Money
by Loriann Hoff Oberlin, MS

Virtually anyone can be a writer -- students, homemakers, professionals, retirees -- if they have a modicum of talent, the capacity to stick with their craft, and the tenacity to keep trying amidst rejection. You will hear "no thanks" yet it only takes one editor to like one project at a time!

Boost your self-confidence and your bank account (even in small increments) using Loriann's "quick cash" approach. She outlines this in the book and in occasional writing seminars.

Next appearance: Gaithersburg Book Festival on

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Next seminar: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in Gaithersburg, MD.

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