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Working Through Conflict with Passion and Compassion

By Brenda Knowles|2015-09-22T16:07:07-05:00October 12th, 2012|Categories: Emotions and Energy, Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Parenting, Personal Evolution, Processing Divorce, Relationships|Tags: conflict, Conflict resolution, introverts and conflict, Mediation, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain|

I avoid conflict. Frequent challenges to my beliefs, words or actions wear me down and suck away priceless energy. Despite that confession, I am in the middle of training to become a Family Mediator (primarily a Divorce Mediator). A strange choice for someone who avoids conflict, right? Oddly enough other people’s contention doesn’t bother me as [...]

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