So many women, understandably, are petrified of conflict. The greatest irony is that in an attempt to avoid conflict and keep the peace, we create so much more tension within ourselves. When we shove our emotions down—our resentments, our frustrations, our needs—they don’t go anywhere, they don’t just disappear. When we can accept, or at least acknowledge, that conflict and rupture are inevitable, we can expend so much less energy trying to run from it and more energy working through it. Running from conflict and hard conversations reinforces the belief that these are things we should be
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