KayBe Counseling & Coaching

12/30/2025

Tip 8 to Help Manage Drama:
When there’s a pattern of drama in your life, meaning it keeps showing up across relationships, settings, or seasons of life, help isn’t about “fixing” someone. It’s about understanding what’s underneath the pattern and learning healthier ways to respond.

If you often find yourself caught up in drama, you might need help; and that's okay. Sometimes a trusted friend can help, but a different level of support may be best.

Here are some ideas:
- Therapist or counselor
- Life coach or relationship coach
- Support group or peer support group
- Skill-based workshops or classes
- Medical provider or psychiatrist

12/25/2025

Being around grounded, emotionally stable people helps reset what feels “normal”. Work on creating a new normal that is drama-free.

12/22/2025

Tip 7 to Help Manage Drama in Your Life: Surround yourself with calm people. Energy is contagious, so invite the calm you seek to experience.

12/17/2025

Stories feed drama because they keep emotions high, invite gossip and venting loops, pull in extra people, and make problems feel bigger than they are.

Try solutions instead, which bring clarity, reduce emotional intensity, put you back in control, and help you move forward.

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12/15/2025

Tip 6 to Help Manage Drama: Choose Solutions Over Stories

It can be easy to get stuck in the emotional narrative around a problem instead of moving toward what can actually be done.

A story is the running commentary we add, like who’s wrong, why it’s unfair, what it says about us, what they should’ve done, or how this always happens.

These stories keep us emotionally activated, and often pull us into drama.

A solution asks:

What’s the next helpful step?

What part of this can I control?

What do I need to do, say, or stop doing?

You can break the cycle. Choose solutions over stories.

12/13/2025

12/11/2025

Control how drama plays out in your life by setting & maintaining boundaries. Here are a few ways to start.

Be clear about what you will or won't engage in.

Take control of your response timeline and the time you give to the situation.

Release yourself from the responsibility of taking on problems that are not yours.

Say no without overexplaining.

12/09/2025

Tip 5 to Help Manage Drama: It's okay to limit contact with people who consistently create chaos. Control how drama shows up in your life by setting and maintaining boundaries...consistently and on apologetically.

12/05/2025

Protect Your Peace by refilling what's been drained. Do what centers you. The calmer you become, the harder it is for chaos to find you.

12/03/2025

Control how drama shows up in your life. Choose to protect your peace.

12/01/2025

Tip 4 to Help Manage Drama: Protect Your Peace

Build routines that strengthen emotional balance such as journaling, prayer, walks, or time in nature.

11/28/2025

Tip 3 to Help Manage Drama: Examine Your Own Role

When someone is stirring things up, it's okay to not engage.

Don't take the bait.

Learn ways to redirect the conversation away from drama.

A few suggestions are:
"I really don't have the energy for that right now."

"Let's talk about something positive."

"I hear you, but I really don't want to get pulled into that."

"That's not really something I prefer to weigh in on."

If this is new for you, it may be uncomfortable, and that's okay.

Continue working on it to help make it more comfortable over time.