Confessions of a Control Freak – and Why We Should Let Go!

By Nanice Ellis

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

I never would have admitted this years ago, but I was a control freak. Like all control freaks, I thought I knew best and I constantly attempted to persuade others to my way of thinking and feeling. It was a full time job, with long sleepless nights and no benefits to myself or others.

It is not fun to be controlling, because the more we try to control, the more life gives us things to control – which, of course, in the end we cannot control.

One of the biggest problems with control is that when we try to control, we close our hearts and we separate ourselves from others, and of course, whatever it is that we try to control, imprisons us.