Fear chooses being right over being free.
It fights for what is known, even when what’s known is pain, limitation, or self-sabotage.
Because fear isn’t just a feeling.
It’s the voice of the Wounded Ego Self—
The part of you wired to protect what’s familiar, not what’s true.
It trades truth for control.
Expansion for safety.
Transformation for survival.
And the closer you get to breaking through—
To stepping into a new level of freedom or success—
The louder that voice becomes.
I’ve seen it in my own life more times than I can count.
Years ago, I was a couple of kilos away from a major health goal.
And then—suddenly—I sabotaged.
I didn’t understand it at the time.
But looking back, I see it clearly:
To expand, I would have had to let go of the limited version of myself.
And that felt terrifying.
Not because the unknown is truly dangerous…
But because of what I had projected into the unknown based on past experience.
Fear doesn’t fear the future.
It fears what it thinks the future means.
It sounds like discernment.
Like realism.
Like being “careful.”
But really?
It’s resistance in disguise.
Discernment, when driven by fear, becomes close-mindedness.
A stubborn grip on the very beliefs that are keeping you stuck.
We fight to be right—because if we surrendered to truth,
We’d have to change.
We’d have to feel what we’ve been avoiding.
We’d have to let go.
And letting go—of control, of identity, of false safety—feels like death to the Wounded Ego.
But here’s the paradox:
Truth doesn’t destroy you.
It dissolves what’s not really you.
And what’s left is freedom. Wholeness. Peace.
So the next time you catch yourself triggered, rigid, or sabotaging…
Don’t ask, What’s wrong with me?
Ask:
What fear is this protecting?
What limitation am I afraid to let go off?
What truth might I be afraid to know?
Because that’s where the real liberation lives.
Not in being right—
But in being free.
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