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GETTING TO ZERO

Jayson Gaddis

How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships

How to "get to zero" - resolve your conflicts with the people around you by understanding the origins of your conflict style and avoidance patterns - from the founder of The Relationship School.
Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we could lose our marriage, our family or our job, all of which are connected to our security and survival. We'll do just about anything to not lose those relationships, including avoiding conflict, betraying ourselves or becoming dishonest. Ironically, these adaptations create even more conflict.

Gaddis' method of Getting to Zero upgrades the old, tired, and static conflict resolution approaches. Why Zero? Zero means that the conflict between you and the other person is done, gone, and you both feel resolved. It's a win/win.

Getting to Zero is a dynamic, user friendly, practical conflict resolution method aimed at helping readers work through conflict with those they care about as quickly as possible. Embracing conflict does not mean that we encourage fights or condone abusive relationships. It means that we stop running away from uncomfortable conversations and instead learn how to work through them. It might mean calling your parents or that old friend and taking responsibility for your part of whatever went down in the past. Or it might mean getting honest with that difficult co-worker and letting them know you want to work through your conflict and that you're willing to listen to them. It means communicating clearly and listening on a day-to-day basis.

In Getting to Zero, Gaddis shows how to move from disconnection to connection, acceptance, and understanding. Most of us don't have great role models, maps or guidance on navigating conflict and the tools we use are deeply ingrained based on our upbringing and attachment styles. How can we deal with conflict in a more effective and positive way so that both parties walk away stronger and more connected? Gaddis provides explanations, examples, and specific tools to change the way we do conflict so we can have closer, more meaningful relationships.

Jayson Gaddis is a relationship expert and sought after coach, as well as the founder of The Relationship School. He is also the host of the successful Relationship School podcast. Gaddis leads the most comprehensive relationship training in the world of intimate relationships and partnership, called the Deep Psychology of Intimate Relationships (DPIR), which teaches his Interpersonal Intelligence system. He has a Masters in psychology and lives with his wife and two children in Boulder, Colorado.
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Published 2021-10-05 by Hachette Go

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Jayson Gaddis has dedicated his life to understanding the dizzyingly complex, emotionally?charged territory of relationships. The knowledge he has accumulated is a gold mine for anyone looking to create deep, fulfilling connections with others. This book is a lifeline for anyone who has wondered how to thrive in relationships.

Jayson Gaddis has done it! He has written a brilliant, practical book that leaves no stone unturned in its quest for healthier relationships. Far too many relationships fall apart because humans have never been taught how to convert conflict into transformation. This book stops the bleeding, and provides the tools and techniques that every relationship needs to get to the other side.

Getting to Zero is the ultimate loving relationships guide for anyone who would love to transform disconnection to connection, conflict into communication, victim mentality into victory mentality, survival into thrival, and inauthenticity into authenticity.

Jayson Gaddis has written, in our view, one of the most clear and helpful books on this endemic feature of our humanity: conflict. If you want to know what conflict is and how to resolve it, Getting to Zero will give you to that destination. We recommend this book to everyone who has ever felt that twitch which plunges us into darkness. While it is replete with accessible theory about what is happening in your mind and brain, it is even more generous with practical guidance from that will lead you from conflict to connection.

Jayson Gaddis' excellent new book, Getting to Zero, is a fabulous couple guide to conflict solutions interspersed with inspirational self-disclosures of Jayson's own life and relationship experiences. He provides valuable conceptual framing and techniques for managing conflict. His detailed insights will be of great value to readers interested in effective loving relationships.

Getting to Zero holds the keys to deepening your relationships and exponentially up?leveling your joy in life! Jayson Gaddis has written the step?by?step guide on resolving conflict from the inside out. As founder of The Relationship School and relational expert, Jayson seamlessly untangles the complexity of resolving conflict to makes the process accessible to all of us if you want to be seen, heard, and understood in your relationships.

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In this compelling guide to approaching conflict in our most intimate relationships, Jayson Gaddis offers a science?informed, practical toolbox for resolving the inevitable tensions that arise in our personal and professional lives. Filled with useful concepts and readily applicable steps to sensing and solving interpersonal challenges, repairing ruptures when they occur, this book is not about trying to achieve a life without difficulties in our relationships, but is about moving toward a receptive state of calm and clarity - a state our author names as "zero" - in which we can engage our inner life and our connections with others with kindness and presence that research suggests are at the core of mutually rewarding, generative ways of living with compassion, connection, and well?being.

Finally a book that gets right to the heart of how to work with relational conflict! Jayson Gaddis brilliantly helps the reader understand what conflict is, why it arises and offers a roadmap through these challenging times. His ability to weave together psychology, human behavior and interpersonal dynamics leaves no stone unturned. Thank you, Jayson, for your tremendous contribution to this part of the human experience that many find themselves lost in. This book is a must?read for everyone.

As a couples therapist, professor, and relationship educator, I am excited to recommend Getting to Zero to my clients and students. Jayson Gaddis is a magnificent teacher??thoughtful, warm, nerdy, practical, and wise. The approach he offers on these pages is one that serves our bodies, our minds, our hearts, and our souls. Dive in! You are going to be so glad you did... and the people you love will be so glad too!