Do I Control ANYTHING?!

Sometimes it feels like life is spinning out of control, and it’s all beyond your reach.

Is that your reality though? Is there something you can control?

THINGS THAT YOU CONTROL:

1. Your thoughts

2. Your words

3. Your responses

4. Your choices

5. Whether or not you take care of yourself

6. What you say to yourself (“Stupid, lame, sick, awesome, brilliant, trying…”)

It’s normal to seek a degree of control when your life is going through a chaotic, or stormy, time. The part where you get tripped up is when you try to control other people or outcomes. You may influence them, but you don’t control them. When you acknowledge that, you can focus on things you can control, and then you’ll see action!

Laurie Wren, LCSW