We're going to have a chance today to discuss your new book called Making Great Relationships, Simple Practices for Solving Conflict, Building Connection, and Fostering Love. But before we do that, let's start like we always do with a parable. In the parable, there's a grandparent who's talking with their grandchild and they say in life, there's two wolves inside of us that are always at battle. One is a good wolf which represents things like kindness and bravery and love. The other is a bad wolf which represent things like greed and hatred and fear.
In this Episode, You Will Learn...
- The fundamental quality of recognizing the good in and having compassion for ourselves and how it's foundational in how we show up in relationships
- Recognizing tension in relationships and developing practices to help you determine what to do or say and when
- Asking yourself to choose harmony or truth in conflicts and how if you routinely choose one, you can end up with neither.
- Why it's important to admit fault and how it's a strength, not a weakness
- Using wise speech is about how we say something and it can have more impact than what we say
- The useful strategy of making small agreements that can improve larger issues in a relationship
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