Three Steps to Dissolving Your Drama
Dump, doodle and dream…
Drama can be a wonderful thing
Once you know what to do with it
Until then, drama’s an all-day-long-mare. And a mardy* mare at that.
Drama in the ‘negative’ sense, that is.
*(spoiled, sulky — North England colloquialism)
Drama is a mardy mare
Until we know differently, an upsetting drama drives us into that triad of despair — we’re adopting personas that really, really suck.
We flip between Persecutor (You’re to blame, do better!), Rescuer (You’re needy — I have to fix you,) and Victim (Woe is me! I neeeeeed…); then back to Persecutor again…
We’re feeling powerless and ‘someone should really DO something about that!’
It’s ok. It’s only human. Drama is par for the course.
The question is, once we’re in drama like that… what happens next?
Rage, on a hair trigger… sounds bad, but it’s not
I was so, SO angry this morning.
Fury. Rage. Resentment. Like flames, they flushed my cheeks, filled my body with hatred.
