How Not to Say the Wrong Thing (2013)

Draw a circle. This is the center ring. In it, put the name of the person at the center of the current trauma. ... Now draw a larger circle around the first one. In that ring put the name of the person next closest to the trauma. ... Repeat the process as many times as you need to. In each larger ring put the next closest people. ... When you are done you have a Kvetching Order....

Here are the rules. The person in the center ring can say anything she wants to anyone, anywhere. She can kvetch and complain and whine and moan and curse the heavens...

Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings.

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Comfort IN, dump OUT.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-oe-0407-silk-ring-theory-20130407-story.html

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