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Who's Really Steering Your Healing? A Catholic Therapist Explains
Who's really driving your healing, you, or your anxiety?
In this episode, Catholic therapist Adam Cross, LMFT (#116623) explores a pattern he sees often in the therapy room: clients whose anxiety or OCD quietly takes charge of the healing process, driven by a fear that anything less than total control means they won't be okay.
Topics covered:
The "listing compulsion" and the fear behind needing to share everything
The anxious "healing manager" part of us that tries to steer therapy
Why forcing healing becomes an obstacle to it
The afraid-of-the-dark analogy for working with anxious parts of…
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