Are you suffering through a life nothing like the one you once imagined, stumbling ever farther from the goals you once embraced? Are you trapped in a relationship where only the others’ needs matter, and you’re blamed if they’re not satisfied? Where your own needs for meaning barely rate secondary consideration? Have you nearly forgotten the carefree, creative, purposeful soul you remember as your SELF, long ago?  MORE...

Waging Conflict as a Way to Restore Self-Esteem?
Conflict is a fact of life for all of us, but too many painful consequences are generated by avoiding or managing it in the wrong way. When we deal with everybody else day after day in any capacity as leaders or team managers, is inevitable that we will be personally confronted with conflict. Our jobs, our reputation and our own satisfaction level are contingent upon knowing a basic principle to understand interpersonal conflict. If you are a leader, you need to learn and apply this principle in all your interactions with people. More...

Respectful confrontation improves couple communication
How many times have you despaired of being understood? How many times do you repress your despair at being rejected by the person who is supposed to love you more than anybody else? And why do you keep those feelings inside you? Because you are afraid of creating a worse conflict if you speak up? More..

Escalation of Interpersonal Conflict
Conflict is a part of most every interpersonal relationship. Managing conflict, then, is important if the relationship is to be long-lasting and rewarding. Learning how to manage conflict involves being able to identify the steps in any escalating confrontation, and being able to stop the escalation and do emotional repair by reinforcing the positive aspects of the relationship. More...

Resolving Inter-Personal Conflicts

Some suggestions to proceed to solve conflicts, in connection with the degree of escalation already present.  More