Everyone wants to help their close relationships thrive. But one six letter word often causes otherwise helpful people to turn destructive. Raised voices. Critical comments. All can flow from an unrecognized threat that lurks beneath the surface. Learn what it is, how to detect it, and make a plan to deal with it in this episode.

Conflict will strike your close relationships. When it does, you need to watch out for the slippery slope of fight or flight responses! You need to make your way to the solid ground of peacemaking. The quality of your life depends upon it.

Learn the attack responses to conflict and the escape responses to conflict. This continuum gives you a grid to show how conflicts go wrong. Horribly wrong.

Conflicts have existed as long as we have history. Learn how World War 1 began. Conflicts can be destructive or constructive. If you want to help conflicts become constructive, you need powerful internal resources. This episode gives you the three A's you need inside before you can be a peacemaker outside.

2020 Likely gave you opportunities to disagree with family members, church members, and random people on social media. Did 2020 make you a better person? Have you built peace? Or have you settled for less? In this episode we learn the principle of 50% as the key to pursuing relational peace in tense disagreements.

This episode introduces you to the problem of our education system. Where is the class on conflict resolution and thriving relationships? We will all face conflict. Unresolved conflicts lead to conflicted relationships which destroy productivity and negatively impact health. I'll introduce you to the beginning of my own quest to learn relational peace. If you want to be more aware of the quality of your close relationships, and start a journey towards relational peace. This episode is for you.