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EP 30: Maria & Madge: The Fixer’s Trap — When Control Becomes Comfort
In this episode of Breaking Cycles with Maria, Maria and Madge explore a question many people quietly struggle with:
Why do some of us feel responsible for fixing everything—and everyone?
What begins as a conversation about problem-solving quickly reveals something deeper: the connection between anxiety, control, perfectionism, and the need to keep everything "just right" in order to feel okay.
Maria challenges Madge to examine how fixing, organizing, cleaning, and managing situations can become ways of soothing internal discomfort. Together, they discuss anxiety, OCD tendencies, self-imposed…
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