Description
Leading mental health advocate and licensed marriage and family therapist Kati Morton explores our common struggle and contradiction with control in ourselves and relationships, giving listeners the ability to not only ask themselves why do I keep doing this? but to have the insight to find a real answer.
Many of us were told to stuff our feelings down when we were younger. We were taught that our emotional reactions and responses should be controlled so we didn’t embarrass or upset our parents and those around us. However, if that control oozes over into our relationships it’s considered a bad thing. Controlling our friends or romantic partners is seen as toxic. Control is a precarious thing. Some aspects of control are meant to keep us safe, while others harm connections. So, what are we supposed to do?
In Why Do I Keep Doing This?, licensed family and marriage therapist Kati Morton explores this common struggle and contradiction with control. Kati shows how our upbringing and anxiety are often connected to our struggle to take up space. We can feel like we are too much by just existing in the same place as someone else, or that we are less deserving of their time and care. This struggle to assert ourselves, or to take what we need, can harm our development. We sometimes think the only way to feel okay and get what we need is to please everyone else first. Why Do I Keep Doing This? is a vital tool in helping us understand why control can be so attractive, but if left unmonitored it can become detrimental to our lives. We all go through tough times and face uncertain futures, and we do what we can to cope, but as we get older and try to get wiser, we must notice which behaviors are holding us back and change them.
Why Do I Keep Doing This? will shed light on shared struggles as readers follow Kati through some key points of growth in her own life while incorporating what she has learned as a therapist and content creator who knows how to create lasting healthy change. This book will give readers the ability to not only ask themselves why do I keep doing this? but also to have the insight to find a real answer.