When Escaping Becomes Control, Not a Discipline Problem.
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When life feels like too much, do you end up on the couch with Netflix, in the pantry, or lost in the scroll, and then beat yourself up for it?
Last week I talked about why we reach for control. This week I'm going a layer deeper, because control doesn't always look like gripping tighter. Sometimes it looks like checking out entirely. The white-knuckling and the escaping look like opposites, yet they're doing the same job: trying to make the overwhelm feel a little smaller.
I walk through what that looks like at 8 p.m. after a full day of everyone else's needs, why the thing…
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