Chris.
In my first attempt at hovering a Jet Ranger, my instructor gave it to me over a square painted over the pavement (about 20' on a side). All I had to do was try to stay within that square. I spent the rest of that session everywhere but that square. Frustrating. The next flight, after reviewing all of the stuff and trying to remember the in out down and speed of visual scan (and lightening up a bit on my grip on the controls)(The other thing he had me doing was "each time you make a control input, make a slight counter correction the other way" which made me my own SAS servo.
) That got me to stop over controlling. I could stay in the square and then fly the square a bit at a time stopping at each corner to turn ... you'll get there.
Welcome to the club, by the way, of those who have hovered. It's a good thing.