Conflict and Relationships
Episode 6: Risa Ganel on Relationships
How do you handle conflict—with your partner? Family members? Friends? In this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, host Elizabeth Cush talks with Risa Ganel about the role of conflict in relationships— and why it’s healthy!
“All relationships have conflicts. It’s not just inevitable. It’s essential. It’s necessary for growth and for building intimacy.”
Show Notes:
We are social beings. We live in families, in communities. We live in relationship with others. Even when those relationships go smoothly, sooner or later we find ourselves in conflict. Although that might feel uncomfortable, even painful, conflict in our relationships isn’t always as bad as we tend to think it is. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman (previously Woman Worriers) podcast. Host Elizabeth Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Annapolis, Md., and a mid-life women’s life coach, welcomes Risa Ganel, a Maryland certified relational life therapist and licensed clinical marriage and family therapist, for a discussion about couples counseling, handling conflict in relationships and using conflict as a steppingstone for growth and greater intimacy with those you love.
Listen and learn:
Why we can’t avoid conflict—and why we don’t handle it well
Why a relationship has to get messy to get better
How many of our interactions are out of sync—and the percentage will surprise you
Why what we think of as “harmony” might be harming us and our relationships
Why women and men tend to handle conflict differently
How conflict and intimacy are connected
The challenges that come with speaking our truth
The six essential elements of the intimacy circuit
Why the wise mind is essential for successful relationships of any kind
Learn more:
Risa Ganel’s Together Couples Counseling website
Free download: 5 Relationship Pitfalls to Avoid—and What to Do Instead
Guided meditations from Progression Counseling
Other episodes you might enjoy
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