Hyper self-reliance can feel like safety. Yet becoming someone who does everything on their own can also be lonely, protecting us from vulnerability and intimacy while keeping out the very things that could make a difference.
When our strategies are designed to avoid the experiences we don't want to feel, we can study and describe why and how we're stuck without getting beyond the threshold.
Creating something new requires us to be willing to let go of control, be supported, and come back again and again to that which would set us free.
