Can Healthy Conflict Improve Relationships?

Embracing healthy conflict is essential for authentic living.

We can often find ourselves in unconscious patterns of “keeping the peace” as a means to minimize conflict. We may feel that it is more helpful and easier to maintain the status quo.

The truth is that avoiding conflict may feel good in the moment. However, in the long run it does more harm than good.

As with most things that feel good in the moment, we miss out on the long term gains of delayed discomfort when we choose the path of least resistance.

Setting boundaries (conflict) can be uncomfortable, especially when it impacts the other person. Yet, it is through this discomfort that we develop healthy individuality, internal self worth, and live more authentically.