Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Welcome to the Drama Triangle

It's an excellent fear-based marketing tool—until it falls apart.

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Elise Loehnen
Feb 19, 2025
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Many of you have probably heard of Stephen Karpman’s Drama Triangle. I’ve written a bit about it here via my friend Courtney Smith, who is an incredible coach (and my co-author on the workbook for On Our Best Behavior that’s coming out this summer—it’s called Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness and I can’t wait to share it with you because the core process…

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