How Unhealed Wounds Hold You Back
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Julia Austin
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Trying to gain control, but really losing it
“Another [person] may become controlling in hopes of preventing any additional ‘loss’ or painful situation in which they did not have agency or power to influence in the past,” says Holcomb. But we really only hurt ourselves when we do that, says Holcomb, stating that “The truth is that we usually hurt ourselves more in efforts to protect ourselves from being vulnerable because the burden of that weighs heavy on our minds, bodies, and souls.”
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