34. The Permission Wound: Why You Keep Waiting for Someone to Say You're Ready
You're 32. You have the skills, the money, the capability. You want to book the trip, make the decision, live your life. But you can't move without asking: "Am I allowed?"
This isn't about confidence. This is the permission wound—the deep, learned belief that you don't have the right to make decisions about your own life without someone else's approval.
This episode reveals how the wound was built (authoritarian parenting, financial control, time monitoring, the safety script), the architecture of control that taught you "your autonomy is conditional," who you originally needed permission…
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