E 374: Tammys #47: What Is Your Behavior Trying to Protect You From?

Adult Child of Dysfunction · Sep 22, 2026 · 9m

Why do we keep doing things we know aren't helping us?

Maybe you drink to relax.

Maybe you reach for food when you're not hungry.

Maybe you disappear into your phone.

Maybe you procrastinate, overwork, people please, isolate, shop, shut down, or stay so busy that you never have to sit with what you're feeling.

Then comes the judgment:

“Why do I keep doing this?”

“Why can't I just stop?”

“What is wrong with me?”

But what if that's the wrong question?

In my conversation with Colleen Clifford, author of Life Beyond the Binge, she said something that applies to so much more than alcohol:

“There's…