It is owning your ability to respond – your responsibility – that is fundamental to cultivating the path from DDT™ to TED*™.
The good news or empowering news is that within us we have what is termed our Creator Essence: not roles but who we are at our core.
I began this series of blogs in January because it is the tail end of the ‘silly season’ that survivors of childhood trauma often struggle to navigate. It’s a time of year when the Dreaded Drama Triangle™ roles of Victim, Persecutor and Rescuer show up around the extended family’s Christmas Tree or Dining Table! I thought that by sharing this topic it might help readers make sense of some of the unhealthy dynamics that continued in their families at this time of year.
Fear is a fundamental part of the human experience, shaping our responses and behaviours from a young age.
This triangle has three parts: the Persecutor, the Victim, and the Rescuer. But here’s the catch: these roles aren’t fixed. We can switch them around, play them all by ourselves or with others, and some of the roles don’t need to be played by human beings; they can be numbing habits we adopt. No wonder we sometimes feel so tangled up.