Signs You’ve Been Living With Your Guard Up
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Julia Austin
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Let go of control – you never had it anyway
“This is the entire reason that people become guarded; it’s a way for them to constantly protect themselves,” says Curry. “I challenge people that live in a guarded space to open up that door anyway. When we face the reality that we can’t control how other people decide to treat us, we learn that trying to protect ourselves from the possibility of being hurt is also ‘protecting’ us from the possibility of true joy.”
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