09/02/2026
🫶 CONTROL - February Blog 🫶
❤️ Control comes up a lot in the therapy room, and it’s made me think about control in my own life.
🧡 For me, control brings a sense of routine and predictability. If I can stay in control of my work, my personal life, and how I am in relationships, I feel safe. Not safe from harm, necessarily, but safe from emotional wobbles.
💙 Having experienced early trauma, unpredictability can sometimes trigger a first response of panic. That’s okay—I recognise it, I have the resources to deal with it, and when I can, I push myself out of my comfort zone.
🙌 And when I do, it feels amazing. I feel alive, capable, confident. 💪
😳 But sometimes it backfires. I feel overwhelmed, overstimulated, craving the familiar again. And that’s okay too. Because I’m human—and I’ve learned to have compassion for myself.
🤓 Control has an evolutionary advantage. If we can predict the things around us, we can respond quickly and survive. But today, the world has opened up to us in ways it never has before: worldwide news, social media, constant streams of information. Suddenly, there’s a lot to try to predict, a lot to try to control, and it’s exhausting. That’s when the wobbles come—the anxiety, the fear.
💕 For me, the answer is to notice it, switch off some of the news channels when I’m overstimulated, and focus on things I *can* control in a healthy way. The rest—I let go. That’s a form of self-care.
Do I get it right every time? Absolutely not. But I'm willing to keep working on it.
If you want to talk about control in your life, and how to find a balance, I’m all ears. Let’s tackle it together. 🙏