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Beyond the Controlling Self - Part 2

Tara Brach

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Controlling My Son

"I was afraid that if he didn't try harder, he'd never be fulfilled and happy. That's where the controlling energy was coming from," she says. "So then I just felt that and called on my most awake part of me and basically said, look, the love is already here and he's okay." There are other pathways to working with the controller: bringing attention inward or handing over control in a relationship.

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