Eyes Wide Open – Help! With Control Freak Co-Parent

Welcome to The Healthy Baby Boomers Network Blog Talk Radio Show.  I am your host, Dr. Erica Goodstone, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Spiritual Relationship Healing Expert Helping Men and Women Heal Their Bodies and Their Relationships Through Love, author of the book: Love Me, Touch Me, Heal Me, director of HealthyBabyBoomersNetwork.com and Healing Through Love Seminar leader.

In this show I am talking with Dr. Debra Wingfield, author and Trainer in Family Violence Treatment and Prevention. Dr. Wingfield developed and taught a domestic violence counselor training curriculum at the University of Southern Colorado, now Colorado State University-Pueblo.  As a practicing counselor from 1975 – 2002 with delinquent youth, families with child abuse and neglect issues, adults and children from all dysfunctional family types, and domestic violence victims, child witness/victims, and offenders, Dr. Wingfield designed and implemented programs that address these issues.   In her research, she used a transactional analysis model exploring adult perceptions of family of origin dynamics related to alcoholic, abusive, and chronic illness families.  She holds a master’s degree in Counseling and Organizational psychology and doctorate in Counselor Education. 

Even if you are divorced and living separately from your childrens’ other parent, do you still feel controlled? Do you feel like your ex is still trying to control you through manipulation or through your children?  When you think about your ex as a co-parent, do the words “control freak” describe that person? 

Listen carefully because even if YOU do not have this problem someone you know may need help - and quickly.