
“But it was all going so well!”
What do you do when the day’s rhythms shift out of your control.
What do you do when the day’s rhythms shift out of your control.
When your mind wanders and the world asks, “Why can’t you just…?”—it’s easy to doubt yourself and lose trust in your ability to choose. In this installment of our agency series, we explore how repeated stumbles can injure our sense of agency, why “demand avoidance” is really a drive for autonomy, and how a small pause can help you begin to heal and reclaim your power to decide.
A powerful and important question without a simple answer. But if we understand what’s behind it, we might find a better path forward.
Be wary of using shame as an organizing tool…