"If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want

to grow any more."

-- Shirley Hufstedler

How are you sabotaging your potential for change?

We unconsciously use defence mechanisms to shield us from

situations we perceive to be scary or painful. A part of you may

want to grow and change, but another part may be resisting

because change always moves you into new territory in your

thinking and emotions.

If you find you are getting anxious, fearful, angry, frustrated,

dismissive or unmotivated, then defence mechanisms are at work.

Watch for them and know them to be signs of fear that wants to

hold you back. Then courageously move through them.

"I have never been contained except I made the prison."

-- Mary Evans