Author Chloe Ballatore: How To Give Honest Feedback without Being Hurtful

In giving feedback, it’s essential to give compliments first. Then you move into making “I” statements, so it’s never “You should” but rather, “I want you to do [x], what do you think about that?”

As a part of our series about “How To Give Honest Feedback without Being Hurtful”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Chloe Ballatore.

Chloe Ballatore is a relationship expert practicing Transactional Analysis and Androgynous Semantic Realignment. She teaches conscious communication, conflict resolution and relationship advice. She is the author of the new book, HOW TO LIVE: Find Love and Keep It and is a graduate of Princeton University.

Our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’ and how you got started?

I reached a point in my life, around age 40, where it seemed like nothing was working anymore: not my career and not my relationships. I didn’t know where to turn. I had been married ten years, had two kids and was contemplating an affair. I didn’t understand why, though, because I still loved my husband. My neighbor started a women’s group with Dr Pat Allen, the…