Setting Limits AND Imposing Consequences in 2 ½ Steps

Authors: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS
Publication date: November 18, 2025. Pre-order being taken
Series: Conflict Communication Book 6

Description

In a world filled with conflict, manipulation, and boundary-pushing behavior, SLIC Solutions for Conflict  offers a calm and practical guide for addressing high-conflict behavior.

Drawing on decades of experience with high-conflict personalities, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS, present the 2½-step SLIC Solutions™ method: Setting Limits and Imposing Consequences. This approach helps you respond with confidence—replacing passive tolerance or reactive aggression with firm, respectful boundaries. 

Whether you’re dealing with narcissists, workplace bullies, difficult relatives, or escalating community tensions, SLIC Solutions equips you with the tools to be assertive without being aggressive, to protect your peace, and to strengthen the social fabric around you. With calm authority, it empowers readers to become more confident limit-setters—helping make families, organizations, and communities safer and more respectful places for all.

You’ll learn five key questions to help ensure your consequences are realistic and effective. With real-world examples from families, workplaces, courtrooms, and communities, this book provides actionable strategies to regain control in even the most challenging situations.

SLIC Solutions™ is the fourth core method in the internationally respected CARS Method® of conflict resolution—alongside Connecting (EAR Statements™), Analyzing options, and Responding (BIFF Response®). With clarity and compassion, this book shows how to communicate boundaries, follow through, and preserve relationships—without falling into manipulation traps.

SLIC Solutions is often the most important skill. High conflict people tend to be the people who can’t stop themselves from offensive or harmful behavior, so others need to stop them. This technique can be used with anyone in your life and can be learned at almost any age.

Assert without aggression. Protect your peace. Strengthen your community.

Changing the Way We Come to Agreement
Second Edition

Michele Huff, JD

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Your Guide to Difficult Workplace Communication

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Your Guide to Respectful Written Communication with Clients, Opposing Counsel and Others

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YouTube Channel (Dr. Todd Grande)

Over 1 MILLION Subscribers

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Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, and Over-the-Top Kids

Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD

Lynne Kenney and Wendy Young

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Megan Hunter, MBA
Andrea LaRochelle, RFM

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Michele Huff, JD

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Foreword by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.

Setting Limits AND Imposing Consequences in 2 ½ Steps

Authors: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS
Publication date: November 18, 2025. Pre-order being taken
Series: Conflict Communication Book 6

Description

In a world filled with conflict, manipulation, and boundary-pushing behavior, SLIC Solutions for Conflict  offers a calm and practical guide for addressing high-conflict behavior.

Drawing on decades of experience with high-conflict personalities, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS, present the 2½-step SLIC Solutions™ method: Setting Limits and Imposing Consequences. This approach helps you respond with confidence—replacing passive tolerance or reactive aggression with firm, respectful boundaries. 

Whether you’re dealing with narcissists, workplace bullies, difficult relatives, or escalating community tensions, SLIC Solutions equips you with the tools to be assertive without being aggressive, to protect your peace, and to strengthen the social fabric around you. With calm authority, it empowers readers to become more confident limit-setters—helping make families, organizations, and communities safer and more respectful places for all.

You’ll learn five key questions to help ensure your consequences are realistic and effective. With real-world examples from families, workplaces, courtrooms, and communities, this book provides actionable strategies to regain control in even the most challenging situations.

SLIC Solutions™ is the fourth core method in the internationally respected CARS Method® of conflict resolution—alongside Connecting (EAR Statements™), Analyzing options, and Responding (BIFF Response®). With clarity and compassion, this book shows how to communicate boundaries, follow through, and preserve relationships—without falling into manipulation traps.

SLIC Solutions is often the most important skill. High conflict people tend to be the people who can’t stop themselves from offensive or harmful behavior, so others need to stop them. This technique can be used with anyone in your life and can be learned at almost any age.

Assert without aggression. Protect your peace. Strengthen your community.

Changing the Way We Come to Agreement
Second Edition

Michele Huff, JD

The Definitive Guide for Divorced or Separated Parents

By attorneys and parenting coordinators, Annette T. Burns, JD and Nicole Siqueiros-Stoutner, JD

Publication Date: December 2024

Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email and Social Media Meltdowns

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

Your Guide to Difficult CoParent Texts, Emails and Social Media Posts

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Annette T. Burns, JD, and Kevin Chafin, LPC

Your Guide to Difficult Workplace Communication

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Megan Hunter, MBA

Your Guide to Respectful Written Communication with Clients, Opposing Counsel and Others

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Rehana Jamal, JD, LL.M.

How Statements Showing Empathy, Attention, and Respect Can Quickly Defuse a Conflict

Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

The Intersection of Personality Theory and the Darkest Minds of Our Time

Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel, Dr. Todd Grande

Over 1 MILLION Subscribers

A secret binds them together. The truth will unravel them.

Featuring troubled therapist Jenny Ocean, her homicidal client Rio Winston, and Jenny’s lover, detective Sam Longford, Harm Reduction journeys into the depravity of serial killing, the pain of ambivalence, the pitfalls of violating boundaries, and the process of gaining and losing insight.

Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel (Dr. Todd Grande)

Over 1 MILLION Subscribers

A Practical Guide to the Power and Freedom of Emotional Honesty

Andrew Seubert, LMHC, NCC

Revised and Updated Second Edition
Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce

Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, and Over-the-Top Kids

Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD

Lynne Kenney and Wendy Young

Reclaim Your Life One Week at a Time

Megan Hunter, MBA
Andrea LaRochelle, RFM

Changing the Way We Come to Agreement from the Inside Out

Michele Huff, JD

365 Days of Healthy Living for Your Body, Mind, and Spirit

Amanda L. Smith, LCSW
Foreword by Blaise Aguirre, M.D.