Your Drive to Grow Might Be Preventing It

What if the way you're trying to grow is actually keeping you stuck?

In this episode, Catholic therapist Adam Cross, LMFT (#116623) unpacks a pattern he sees constantly in his clinical work: clients who want to be better, more disciplined, more spiritually mature, but who are driven by an internal critic instead of love. That fear-based motivation, he explains, often leads to burnout, numbing, and avoidance instead of real change.

Topics covered:

The internal critic and where it comes from

Fear-based growth versus peace-based growth

Why doom scrolling and numbing out happen

The "how" and "why" behind our goals

1 Corinthians 4 and the judgments of others

Resting in being already loved by God

You don't have to earn your worth to grow. You already have it, and that changes how you pursue every goal.

Have questions? Visit my website: adamcrossmft.com Adam Cross, LMFT #116623