joyful living - the BLOG
For the stressed and the overworked!
How tired are you ending up in the same old story?
What if I told you that you could change that story and jump into a new one that brings genuine joy?
Sounds divine, doesn’t it? Follow along and feel the ease!
Category
- Agency
- Analysis Paralysis
- Anger and Depression
- Anxiety Stress & Fear
- Balance
- Burning the candle
- Burnout
- Change
- Dealing with Urgency
- Difficult Choices
- Doubt
- Drive
- Emotional awareness
- Empowerment
- Empowerment and Living
- Epigenetics
- Expectation
- Faith
- Gaining agency in your life
- Healing
- Hope
- Inspiration
- Introversion
- Leadership
- Living with pain
- Multitasking
- Optimism
- Overcoming emotional pain
- Personal Boundaries
- Personal Strengths
- Resilience
- Self-reliance
- Shame
- Trauma
- Victim Mentality
- Vulnerability
- Worry
- avoiding conflict
- balance
- being alone
- conflict resolution
- connection
- dealing with emotions
- decluttering
- duty and guilt
- emotional eating
- emotional pain
- empathy
- energy
- feeling stuck
The Growth We Miss When We Avoid Conflict
Lots of people in my world are conflict-averse. That includes friends, colleagues and clients. And myself … often.
People dedicated to avoiding conflict will go to immense lengths to sidestep any possible conflict that looks like it might happen. They might verbally agree with someone even if they don’t agree on anything that person said. They might …
Transforming Conflict: A Path to Understanding and Connection
Conflict-aversion is something many of us feel: we’d rather get along and feel safe and comfortable than get into an argument with another. That isn’t necessarily what conflict has to look or feel like, but that is how many of us think about it.
Conflict is scary and we’d rather avoid it.