Holiday gatherings provide the perfect opportunity for them to surface. If pressed into an unavoidable conversation, how should you start it?

Conflict is a part of every friendship, working relationship, and marriage. But when it comes to disagreements, how can you know which fights are worth having, and which ones are worth letting go? In this video, Dr. Tim Muehlhoff shares two criteria to guide your decision.

In this blog, Dr. Tim Muehlhoff explains how a speaker's credibility affects our communication during conflict.

Read more for tips on how to promote productive conversations using the process of perception-checking.

In the next several blogs, Tim Muehlhoff will address the most common reasons conflict occurs in even the best of relationships.

Dr. Tim Muehlhoff confronts the hype behind Fifty Shades of Gray and outlines the dangerous cycle of abuse in relationships.

In this brief clip, Dr. Tim Muehlhoff poses a very important question - where do you get the power to put this knowledge into practice?

Dr. Tim Muehlhoff discusses how the normalcy of divorce affects culture and the way we think.

"How can I assess the climate of my marriage? What does that even mean?" Read more to find out.

The essential first step in crafting a difficult conversation is to reclaim a healthy respect for the power of words. When preparing to engage another in a difficult conversation we must acknowledge and anticipate the impact our words could have on another.