Independence Means Making Our Own Decisions
Independence means making our own decisions. Making our own decisions can lead to feelings of empowerment and perceiving ourselves in new ways—and the ability to create more options in our lives. Everyone has reserves of spontaneity, creativity, courage, and strength. Each of us had vast amounts of these reserves when we were children, and we naturally have even more now as we’ve become more resilient over time. Perceiving oneself in a new way may only take remembering that 5