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Breaking our family patterns

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How Do You Survive Self-Sabotage?

"I can often see myself doing or saying something in real time often with my wife," she says. "And there's this manding feeling of knowing what I should do and not doing it." Self-sabotage is when we try to protect ourselves from the things that are unresolved, unhealed by our childhood experiences. The author grew up with a manipulative father who gaslit her mom.

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