Well, hello, thanks for joining us. I'm Josh of Darmapunks New York.

Darmapunks NYC.com will be at Philadelphia on June 17th for a day long. So if you're in the Philadelphia region and you'd like to connect with

other friends of the Darma join us, it'd be lovely to see you. On the last Sunday of June we'll be having another

gathering in New York at Century Yoga and I will not sure if yet the link is up but it should be

up very shortly and that's a from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday on 23rd Street, last Sunday of the month of June.

And on August 31st to September 4th, we'll be having once again our Labor Day retreat.

We had like 70 people or 80, I can't remember, but it was a really wonderful gathering and with yoga and hiking and great food and the information is also on the Garrison Institute website so find out about there.

And hopefully if you would like to support my work as a

darma teacher Buddhist pastor, the Venmo's Darma Punks with an ex, and the

PayPal is on the Darma Punks NYC.com website and there's a Patreon page as well under

Darmapunks NYC and it's certainly one of the most constant themes of counseling work I do,

avoidance coping, especially conflict avoidance.

It's very often a sign of a lack of maturation. And so I'm going to be talking about why that is,

the ramifications of conflict avoidance and the ways to move on to healthier interpersonal dynamics

when we have to convey difficult information

or go through possibly conflictual interactions

with people.

So it's pretty common, for example, when two people are dating and one no longer feels comfortable

in the relationship.

The anxiety concerning a breakup conversation can lead them to keep stalling or waiting for the right time.

Or when people at work... or waiting for the right time,

or when people at work feel the need for a raise

...