Treading gently means more than light steps: Dunnville author releases book navigating emotionally-charged situations

By Valerie Posthumus

The Haldimand Press

DUNNVILLE—Keeping emotions in check can be challenging on a good day and terrible on the worst of days. Many just aren’t sure how to handle their emotions.

Sharon Jones is an emotional intelligence trainer and local author who has learned the importance of improving one’s emotional intelligence. She will be the first to tell you that she hasn’t always had the tools in her toolbox of emotional intelligence. But, now that she has ‘got it’, she is sharing her wisdom in her book, Tread Gently, “for the emotionally clumsy. Ten steps to navigate emotionally-charged situations”.