Making Peace with What I Can't Control: Find Relief from the Exhaustion of Overthinking, Trying to Fix Others, and Wanting to Figure It All Out

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My Efforts to Control Do Not Prevent My Fears from Coming True

It's not that we want to be controlling people; we're just desperate to prevent another hardship, more heartbreak, and all the emotional turmoil that feels so unnecessary. And we're especially afraid of what God seems to be allowing. So we come up with plans and try to make everyone around us line up with what we really think is best.

But this only leads to a false belief that everything depends on us-a crushing...