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Breaking our family patterns

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How Do You Feel When You're in Escalation?

For me, it really does feel like this impulse to behave in ways I know are unhealthy is so strong that it can feel like almost a nervous system sort of thing. And I don't know if part of it is the almost thriving on conflict. In a almost perverse way, I'm very much at ease when my guard is up. ... It's almost a safer space than being vulnerable."

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