Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care by Iantaffi, Alex, PhD Lmft

Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798889844143)

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Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care by Iantaffi, Alex, PhD Lmft

Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care

$21.95
Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care by Iantaffi, Alex, PhD Lmft

Doing Conflict Better: How to Navigate Trauma and Conflict, Repair Relationships, and Communicate with Care

$21.95
Format: Paperback
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Trauma-informed prompts, exercises, and real-life examples: how to set better boundaries and have courageous conversations with the Conflict Intimacy framework

An inclusive, gentle, and neurodivergent-affirming approach

Do Conflict Better is an accessible, interactive handbook for understanding and working through conflict with care, awareness, and skill. Written by trauma therapists Alex Iantaffi and Lior Effinger-Weintraub, this book shows how conflict is a natural, inevitable part of life. And it doesn't need to be feared, avoided, shamed, or shut down: when we do it well, conflict can strengthen our relationships, transform our communication, and grow our agency for the better.

The authors show us how we bring our trauma into our conflicts...sometimes without realizing it. They unpack how different kinds of trauma--like individual, collective, and intergenerational trauma--shape how we show up to moments of disagreement and tension in all areas of our life, from our most personal and intimate relationships to our work spheres.

Organized into three sections on Trauma, Conflict, and Communication, Do Conflict Better teaches how:

  • Nervous system responses like fight, flight, freeze, and fawn impact our ability to hold healthy conflict
  • To develop the critical skill of "conflict intimacy" to channel disagreement, deepen trust, and nurture connection
  • To set better boundaries, navigate shame, and engage in courageous conversations
  • Community-based and restorative approaches to justice can lead to genuine accountability
  • Trauma intersects with different neurotypes

Do Conflict Better takes a trauma-sensitive tone, written in language that intentionally nurtures a safer, less triggering reading experience than other books about conflict. With user-friendly prompts, exercises, and self-care activities, this book empowers us to move from avoidant and reactive conflict styles toward more intentional, compassionate, and authentic ways of relating.

Author: Alex PhD Lmft Iantaffi,Lior Licsw Effinger-Weintraub
ISBN-13: 9798889844143
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2027
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
By Alex PhD Lmft Iantaffi
By Alex PhD Lmft Iantaffi
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Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, SEP, CST, CST-S, LMFT (they/he/lui) is an award-winning author, family therapist, WPATH certified gender specialist, AASECT certified sex therapist, and international speaker. Past President of the Minnesota Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Alex has published and presented extensively on gender, disability, sexuality, and trauma across four continents. They are the author of Gender Trauma and co-author of several books with MJ Barker, and host the podcast Gender Stories.

Lior Effinger-Weintraub, MSW, LICSW (they/them) is a clinical social worker and trauma therapist practicing in Minneapolis through Social Working Queer LLC, working primarily with LGBTQ+ clients navigating complex trauma and dissociative disorders. Trained in AEDP and IFS, Lior hosts practitioner trainings and is a visual communicator whose illustrations and zines uplift community strengths.

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