{"id":37314,"date":"2023-09-05T21:16:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37314"},"modified":"2023-09-05T21:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T02:16:41","slug":"it-can-take-a-lifetime-of-work-to-overcome-abusive-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=37314","title":{"rendered":"It can take a lifetime of work to overcome abusive \u2018programming\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve spent my adult life on a long journey of recovery. It started while I was still in my late 20s when I vaguely realized something was wrong. That led to the realization that I had come from a very dysfunctional family. But I still had so many layers of dysfunction to take apart \u2014 and I had so much to learn in order to become an emotionally healthy adult.<\/p>\n

Even now, I keep finding more habits to unlearn.<\/p>\n

I wish I could have grown up with healthy mental habits and healthy inner beliefs about myself. I wish I could have been emotionally healthier when I was trying to build a company. I wish I could have seen the truth about myself and about the world in time to give myself more time to build on what I\u2019ve learned.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know those things as a child. I didn\u2019t know them when I was 30. I didn\u2019t even know them 10 years ago. But I know now.<\/p>\n

This is the next in a series of videos dealing with issues that come up for me to think about as I write a book about my childhood experience of growing up with a narcissistic father. You can visit that YouTube channel<\/a> to subscribe to future videos. (Liking and subscribing help me quite a bit in helping others to see the videos.) Or can can watch this video below.<\/p>\n