Are You Free or Controlled?
We spend so much time seeking to be understood. We fight for it, cry for it, yet life was never meant to be understood. It was meant to be felt. To be experienced through us.
The same is true with Love.
But we focus on trying to make sense of life while we search for its meaning, purpose, our commonalities, and we get frozen in our differences. We get frozen in the challenges of life. And this comes from our desire to control life itself and everyone in it.
Yet somehow we know that the meaning of life isn’t found in control, but in freedom. It’s not found in the mind, but in the heart.
We feel the most alive when we are in the moment and experiencing our feelings. It is when we allow ourselves to feel it all: fear, love, passion, anger, uncertainty, and sadness.
It is in these moments that we grow and change. When we meet ourself without lying, hiding, or judgment.
We weren’t meant to live in our heads.
And that requires us to let life move us and move through us. To let ourselves be touched by the beauty, broken open in its challenges and chaos, while still staying open to feel it all. And this is where our freedom lies. Being willing to experience it all.
This is where freedom lives.
This is what it means to be fully alive.
Dr. Heather Browne PsyD, LMFT helps people recognize the power of communication. It is one of our most important skills that we have, and yet we don’t consider our understanding, approach, belief, and therefore, miss our possibilities. Living with a paranoid schizophrenic mother gave Dr. Heather a unique and powerful awareness that no one has the same reality, though we believe we do. Utilizing this revolutionary awareness has allowed her to transform communication within self and within all other types of relationship. This is the hidden key to acceptance. And this is her mission to share.
As a relationship expert, Dr. Heather Browne has worked with thousands of individuals and couples in psychotherapy. She is a TedX Speaker and Keynote Speaker. Her couple’s communication book, Speaking with the Heart: Transforming Your Relationship and Communication with Compassion and Connection, which offers readers a practical way to understand what it takes to truly communicate on a deeper level, not just with their partner, but within themselves, is now available in both paperback and Kindle.
. She is published in hundreds of journals, has an active YouTube channel, has been featured on ABC-7 news, was the relationship expert on KDOC Daybreak OC, and is published in Inc., Toronto Sun, Thriving Family Magazine, Light + Life, BRAINZ, Scary Mommy, and Psychology Today. She is a regular guest blogger for both Links for Shrinks and for Marriage Friendly Therapists. She offers a weekly newsletter packed with tips and techniques to improve relationships and has monthly workshops! Simply go to her website!
https://www.drheatherbrowne.com/
