Not Just More Positive Ones About ten years ago, I began playing pickleball, the sport that started right here on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where I’ve lived for 25 years. The pickleball community here is vibrant, encouraging, supportive, and fun. These qualities carry forward the spirit of the first families who created the game […]| Center for The Empowerment Dynamic
A poem He lurks with his acolytes by the school gateand when I’m at Chess Club, he’ll sometimes still wait.I’ve tried sneaking out, but he knows where I live.He’ll hurt me if I don’t have money to …| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
The Surprising Power of the Victim Role I had a recent experience and noticed something surprising and more nuanced about the Victim role than I had seen before. I was at a retreat, staying in a community center with several dozen people. The meeting room—used for yoga, meals, and group gatherings—was near one […]| Center for The Empowerment Dynamic
When Over-Helping Hurts Everyone Of all the three reactive patterns in the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT), it is the hyper helper that most aligns with the Rescuer role. Society lifts the helper as a model citizen: generous, selfless, tireless and always willing to help. But what usually lies behind the actions of a […]| Center for The Empowerment Dynamic
How Baby Steps are the Secret to Creating Anything In my last blog I wrote about how to leverage the energy in the gap between what you want and what you actually have. I challenged readers to view this energy as generative rather than as anxiety. When embracing this energy as generative, the next step […]| Center for The Empowerment Dynamic
Most of us know when we’re caught in a reactive loop, but we don’t always realize which role we’re playing in the Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) roles of| Center for The Empowerment Dynamic
Choosing gratitude takes work. Here are a few ideas.| Rambling Ever On
Who carved the Burke and Hare Murder Dolls, placed them in wooden coffins, and stashed them in a cliffside niche in the 1800s? And why? The post Mystery of the Burke and Hare Murder Dolls appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
Nestled on the southern incline of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the Tarpeian Rock stands… The post The Tarpeian Rock: Ancient Rome’s Gruesome Place of Death appeared first on Historic Mysteries.| Historic Mysteries
We explore how important monetary bail is as a source of restitution for victims of crime and whether the elimination of monetary bail will have the unintended consequence of reducing compensation for victims.| Loyola University of Chicago Center for Criminal Justice