CHAPTER 3 A Picture of the Past

A Catalyst for Who You Are Today

This chapter takes a deep dive into how past experiences, childhood hurts, and even familial patterns influence how you approach disagreements. Understanding your past will help you move into a future of more respectful disagreements. In this chapter, allow yourself to go back in time to determine what’s blocking you from the choice of Golden Respect and to start making progress toward more respect in your disagreements.

It should come as no surprise that the threads that stitch together the tapestry of your life are deeply connected to your origins, to every moment you’ve lived and experienced from the day of your birth until this very second. This is true of my story, too. I ...

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