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Category Archives: Conflict Coaching

Getting Bent Out of Shape

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Cinnie Noble

I have often heard this idiom – getting bent out of shape – when people talk about their reactions or the other person’s when in conflict. Several sources say this expression means to take offense, to become angry, agitated, or … Continue reading →

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Are You Beating Around the Bush?

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Cinnie Noble

When we are in conflict, some of us avoid coming to the point about something we think may upset the other person. The idiom beat around (or about) the bush describes the sort of prevarication when we delay or are … Continue reading →

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That Made My Blood Boil

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Cinnie Noble

Did you know that there was a belief that blood actually boils when people become angry or excited? We know that is not true and even has a sort of sci-fi feeling to it. However, that made my blood boil … Continue reading →

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Change & Conflict

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Cinnie Noble

When it comes to the wide range of changes that can occur in our professional and personal lives, anything that shifts the status quo – negative or positive – is known to exacerbate feelings of insecurity, vulnerability and other emotions. … Continue reading →

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Mutuality in Interpersonal Conflict

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Cinnie Noble

When we are in conflict, our experience of it is not something we are always able to articulate. What is really going on for us, to what we are reacting, what we are attributing to ‘the other person’ and so … Continue reading →

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