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Grateful For the Fight

The new book by Viola Neufeld

"Don't waste your conflict."

​​​If you’re ready to heal personal and mutual sensitivities, gain greater inner peace, and enjoy a relationship with more intimacy and vitality, welcome!
​You’ve come to the right place.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


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Viola Neufeld

Viola Neufeld has made a career of helping individuals, couples, families, students, and workplaces use conflict to achieve personal and collective change, regain fulfilling relationships, and build dynamic organizations. She has used the same revolutionary approach to interpersonal conflict to maintain a vibrant family life and build lifelong friendships.

Neufeld has a Master’s degree in social work from California State University and is a Registered Couple and Family Therapist with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a Registered Social Worker with the British Columbia College of Social Workers, and a roster mediator with Mediate BC. Since 2004, Neufeld has been an associate faculty member in the Conflict Analysis and Management Program at Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC.

She lives in Vancouver, BC, and says of her methodology, “I love where a worthy fight can take us.”

ABOUT THE BOOK


Grateful for the Fight
Using inner conflict to transform yourself and your relationships
By Viola Neufeld

“Don’t waste your conflict.”

Grateful for the Fight goes beyond resolving conflict to using conflict to transform lives. Neufeld cautions that the urgency in today’s society to resolve conflict might be a sophisticated way of bypassing the true value of conflict. If we let it, conflict can be our ally—an unusual window into the self. By investigating our fears and releasing them, we stand to make a true and lasting change that will improve our daily lives and every one of our relationships.

The premise of Grateful for the Fight, Neufeld’s first book, is that if we have the necessary fight with ourselves, we won’t be having unnecessary fights with others—and we will be more equipped to have the necessary ones. Using real case scenarios and personal experiences, Neufeld demonstrates how using outer conflict to work through inner conflict points to a greater capacity for growth and resilience in uncomfortable situations.

If you’re ready to heal personal and mutual sensitivities, gain greater inner peace, and enjoy a relationship with more intimacy and vitality, welcome! You’ve come to the right place.
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Book Details:
  • 240 pages
  • Black & White
  • 6.0 x 9.0 inches


ISBNs:
  • 978-1-5255-1406-7 Hardcover
  • 978-1-5255-1407-4 Paperback
  • 978-1-5255-1408-1 eBook
BISAC/Categories:
  • SEL040000
    Help, Communication & Social Skills
  • SEL031000
    Self-Help, Personal Growth
  • FAM013000
    Family & Relationships, Conflict Resolution
Keywords:
​Conflict Resolution, Internal Conflict, Relationship Conflict, Workplace Conflict, Communication Problem, Family Conflict, Personal Growth

REVIEWS


Kirkus Review
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A debut manual challenges readers to explore the “unwanted self” and how it affects relationships, conflicts, and perceptions.

Neufeld skips past the traditional conflict-management advice readers often find in self-help books, diving straight into the core of what ignites clashes in relationships. Having little to do with the dynamic between two people, conflicts actually arise, the author explains, from the sore spots and perceptions of the unwanted self. Looking at expectations and desires, she encourages readers to reflect on feelings sparked by relationship battles that might be rooted deeply in early beliefs formed about themselves: both the ideal and the unwanted selves. Rather than advocating basic listening and expressing patterns, the author suggests internal questioning and self-reflection that deeply examine the positive side of conflict: its power to propel individuals toward progress and constructive change. The author recommends that readers pause and consider how they create trouble in relationships, stating the specific causes and identifying the behaviors. This serves as a catalyst for choosing growth and change instead of the same patterns. In an incisive chapter entitled “Warming Up to the Unwanted Self,” Neufeld deftly describes the tension between the desires of the self and the fear of becoming the unwanted, rejected version of the self. For example, the author uses this juxtaposition: “I want to be a passionate lover but that makes me feel guilty and self-indulgent. Not being able to let go makes me feel like an inadequate lover.” This clear naming of the struggle between the self and the ego is what distinguishes this book from others in its genre. Rather than quick solutions for better communication, Neufeld offers powerful tools for self-reflection and personal metamorphosis. By defining those triggers that repeatedly produce fights, readers can self-actualize, resulting in improved relationships with others. Another of the book’s strengths is its avoidance of binaries and its dedication to studying the positives and negatives of common themes like shame, criticism, and rejection. “How much should we care about what people think?” she asks. “When we seek an answer to this question by navigating between the polarized positions of caring too much and not caring at all, we enact a necessary internal struggle.” The manual culminates in a chapter on how to deal with others differently by embracing new self-awareness and relationship aspirations.

An in-depth, intellectually stimulating relationship guide that manages to be conversational and clear in its delivery.
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