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SYSTEMS IN ACTION · Family Estrangement
Reconciliation often fails at the first move. Shame makes emotional outreach intolerable. This guide shows how small, functional steps reopen the path back. Systems-in-Action.
Madonna Demir
Madonna Demir writes at the intersection of systems and soul, where structures meet the human spirit. A global operations executive and essayist, she explores how modern life can be redesigned with clarity, compassion, and a bit of humor.
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Integrating Demir’s Step 0 With Coleman’s Reconciliation Ladder: Pre-Contact Interventions in Family Estrangement for Clinicians
Most estrangement frameworks begin too late, assuming both sides can manage emotional contact. Shame and reactivity can block even skilled attempts. Demir Step 0 supplies the missing on-ramp sequence prior to use of Coleman’s reconciliation ladder.
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The Broken Clock
A childhood lesson becomes a systems lesson: even unreliable sources contain truth if you know how to detect it. In a world of noise and low-signal systems, leadership depends on recognizing the moment something is right.
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The Path Back
A missing teammate. A brittle room. A way back that was narrow, but real. A story about what it takes to return when standards have been broken.
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Frontline Decides Everything
The frontline is the brand. One rude voice can cost churches trust, clinics patients, and companies millions. In modern systems, receptionists, schedulers, and agents quietly decide access, trust, and outcomes.
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The Power of Crones
A systems-level look at why older women vanish from cultural sightlines, shaped by neural reflexes, mortality avoidance, and cultural programming — and how that invisibility restores autonomy, clarity, and freedom.
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Enmity Cured — Good Neighbors Are Made When the Cows Get Out
One snowy night, the cows got out — and something older than argument took over. A childhood memory of help offered without scorekeeping, and enmity quietly cured.
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Ecosystem of Tipping
Informal economies emerge everywhere, long before and long after formal rules appear. Most incentives don’t flow through rules. They flow through favors no one names.
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A growing library of real-world scenarios examined through a systems lens. Each Systems-in-Action entry reveals the pattern beneath the moment and the structural truths that shape human behavior.
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Tire Iron vs. Tuning Fork
When collaboration becomes torque instead of tone, systems strain. Tire Iron vs. Tuning Fork; Leverage or Listening explores how AI and leadership alike can shift from extraction to resonance — a tuning-fork approach that turns efficiency into coherence.
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The Vanishing Art of Whistling
Whistling once marked human ease and self-made joy. As that small sound fades, what disappears with it tells a larger story about modern life and embodied rhythm.
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UBI Dressed Like Work
What if universal basic income isn’t a future policy—but a system already in motion? This essay examines how subsidies, compliance roles, and make-work quietly distribute income under the guise of employment—and what that hidden architecture reveals about modern value and work.