
“We trade freedom for control because control allows us to manage our fear, and we have become so accustomed to control as a means of governing our lives that we are afraid of the outcome if we were to relinquish this fundamental tool of survival.
We fear what will happen if we were to let go of control—that we will swing wildly out of control—but this is rarely the case.
The truth is the less we seek to control the parts of ourselves we do not trust, the more we are led to radical acceptance of ourselves, and eventually in this space, we will find freedom from the things we fear.”
Read all of my latest article over at Elephant Journal x