Today let’s talk about controlling behavior.
Have you ever been told you’re controlling?
I was told that, and didn’t like it, but as I started looking at how I was living in my world, I discovered it was true. I love the line from the movie Days of Thunder where Nicole Kidman tells Tom Cruise, “you’re trying to control something that’s out of control.” I was doing that, but trying to control today’s events like I couldn’t control the alcoholic family of my teenage years. I was trying to tell everyone how to run their world, so my world wouldn’t become threatening and out of control, as I had seen many times growing up. I was applying excessive energy that wasn’t about today. As I learned to separate today’s events from the past, it gave me a great sense of relief, and was very freeing!
Have friends ever said you were controlling?
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Dan L. Hays offers encouragement for adult children of alcoholics.
The podcasts of these episodes can be found at: Minute to Freedom
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