"I am so free, but I had to make a bunch of cages around myself to be free," she writes. "People who do not have an internal locus of control make external rules to keep themselves safe." She says her daughter told her that it's never a good idea to impose extreme new rules on yourself as you're trying to recover from cancer. 'There is nothing about myself that was telling me I needed an outer structure to protect me'
Glennon shares what she’s learning in therapy and what she feels we all could benefit from knowing – especially about wanting, yearning, fixing, and the next right thing.
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