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Your Drive to Grow Might Be Preventing It
What if the way you're trying to grow is actually keeping you stuck?
In this episode, Catholic therapist Adam Cross, LMFT (#116623) unpacks a pattern he sees constantly in his clinical work: clients who want to be better, more disciplined, more spiritually mature, but who are driven by an internal critic instead of love. That fear-based motivation, he explains, often leads to burnout, numbing, and avoidance instead of real change.
Topics covered:
The internal critic and where it comes from
Fear-based growth versus peace-based growth
Why doom scrolling and numbing out happen
The "how" and…
The skinny
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